Re: [tlug] SSDs

[David Santinoli <marauder@example.com>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:00:51PM +0900, Lyle H Saxon wrote:
> My biggest concern is reliability and longevity.  If the hard drive
> has to read from a large file on one part of the disk, and write to a
> new file on another part of the disk, I recall videos of the
> mechanical motions of an HDD, and it seems that it would be a lot
> smoother (and less mechanically stressing) to have one HDD reading
> from the large file and and having the new file being created on a
> separate HDD....

In principle, yes.  But unless your single drive performs this kind of
task 24/7, I'd be reluctant to believe it would significantly decrease
its lifetime.

Want true mechanical stress?  Enjoy rsync on a DVD-RAM. :-)

David