23 May
2011
23 May
'11
6:46 p.m.
On 05/23/2011 09:39 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 05/23/2011 02:31 AM, Kevin Thorpe 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.
Yes, there's a limit number of writes. With wear leveling you should be able to write to the drive at its full rate, constantly, for years before you actually wear out the drive.
However, SSD drive reliability itself has been very poor in the field. The failure rate is obscene.
See Jeff Atwood's 'The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale': URL:http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html
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Benjamin Franz