[CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition

Rudi Ahlers Rudi at SoftDux.com
Mon May 23 09:48:04 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kevin Thorpe
<kevin.thorpe at pibenchmark.com> wrote:
> Just be aware that SSDs wear out. They have a limited number of write
> cycles.
> Nowadays they all do 'wear levelling' to even the writes across the drive
> but
> even so they don't last very long in heavy write usage.
>


Doesn't SATA and SAS drives also wear out?

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