<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Gordon Messmer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yinyang@eburg.com">yinyang@eburg.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 05/20/2011 01:26 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:<br>
> I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to use a new SSD<br>
> for moving all the disk i/o to, that Linux likes to do so<br>
> often.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Just be aware that SSDs wear out. They have a limited number of write cycles.<br>Nowadays they all do 'wear levelling' to even the writes across the drive but<br>even so they don't last very long in heavy write usage.<br>
<br>If you're talking swap and tmp then you can get a DRAM drive which will be <br>lightning fast but even with battery backup you can't expect the contents to<br>be kept through a power cycle.<br>