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

[Kevin K]

On May 23, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:

> 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?

A SSD drive can be a SATA drive.  SATA is the connection/protocol between the drive and the computer.