Am 07/19/2013 03:17 AM, schrieb Lists:
Main thing is DO NOT EVEN THINK OF USING CONSUMER GRADE SSDs. SSDs are a bit like a salt shaker, they have only a certain number of shakes and when it runs out of writes, well, the salt shaker is empty. Spend the money and get a decent Enterprise SSD. We've been conservatively using the (spendy) Intel drives with good results.
Hm. I'm not sure, if I'd go with that. In my understanding, I'd just buy something like a Samsung SSD 840 Pro (for not using TLC) and do a overprovisioning of about 60% of the capacity. With the 512GiB-Variant, I'd end up with 200GiB netto. By this way, I have no issues with TRIM or GC (there are always enough empty cells) and wear leveling is also a non-issue (at least right now...).
It's a lot cheaper than the "Enterprise Grade SSDs", which are still basically MLC-SSDs and are also doing just the same as we are. And for the price of those golden SSDs I get about 7 or 8 of the "Consumer SSD", so I just swap those out, whenever I feel like it. Or smart tells me to do so.