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

Devin Reade gdr at gno.org
Tue May 24 16:36:41 UTC 2011


--On Monday, May 23, 2011 05:05:38 PM -0700 R - elists
<lists07 at abbacomm.net> wrote:

> what specific units are considered server grade ssd's ?

What you want to look for in your drive specs are the acronyms
SLC and MLC.

   SLC is enterprise grade, smaller capacity, expensive
   MLC is consumer grade, larger capacity, cheap(er)

Expected lifetimes are typically at least 10x better for SLC.

Devin




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