Re: [tlug] Making better use of SSDs?: Beware of Heavy Write Usage

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

2012/5/28 Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>:

> On 28/05/2012 18:25, Attila Kinali wrote:
>> The standard multi-level-cell NAND Flash chips used in SSDs have about
>> 10'000 write cycles endurance. [etc.]
>
> I'm not sure it's particularly useful to have a discussion about the merits of
> SSDs compared to HDDs, without actually comparing them to HDDs.

Along those lines, here are some interesting links:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/10/the-state-of-solid-state-hard-drives.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/09/revisiting-solid-state-hard-drives.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html

The dates are right there in the URIs, so you have your grains of salt. :)

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Cheers,
Josh