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

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Kevin K kevink1@fidnet.com wrote:

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

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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kevin Thorpe kevin.thorpe@pibenchmark.com wrote:

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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.

Not quite. SATA is a type of drive, same as IDE / ATA, SCSI, SATA :)