On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, William Warren wrote:
On 2/2/2012 1:19 PM, Matt wrote:
Has anyone installed a high I/O application such as an email server on SSD drives? Was thinking about doing two SSD's in RAID1. It would solve my I/O latency issues but I have heard that SSD's wear out quickly in high I/O situations? Something like each memory location only has X many writes before its done. Just wandering if anyone has tested it and if newer SSD's are better about this?
it all depends on how much writing you do AND how much spare space the drives have. The more spare flash the drives have the longer they'll live due to being able to spread the writing wear over a larger area.
How very timely, I'm just starting to investigate something similar myself. I don't have much to contribute however this forum post: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Enduranc... seems as though it'll be interesting, if I can ever make it through 3500+ pages to get to the conclusion.