Re: [tlug] SSDs

[Kyle Hasegawa <kylehase@example.com>]

On 8/12/2009 11:01 AM, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2009-08-12 10:24 +0900 (Wed), Graham Iphone wrote:
>
>    
> > Any concern about the write wear on SSDs? I understand it's still an
> > issue on consumer models?
> >      
> It's actually an issue on all models, to some degree or other.
>
> But it's a fairly minor worry for me; I expect all of my hard drives to
> fail catastrophically at some point, and have appropriate systems for
> recovery in place. I expect it's quite likely that I'll be replacing
> this drive with a larger one in a year or so, anyway, as the prices
> continue to fall.
>
>    

True.  Still, I feel better avoiding write-heavy applications on 
expensive SSD especially if the application is CPU bound or there's no 
significant performance gain from using SSD.  I even disabled the swap 
partition on my SSD notebook for that reason.  Whether it will make a 
difference in the performance or life of the drive is unclear but I 
sleep better at night.

KyleHase