23 May
2011
23 May
'11
11:31 a.m.
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Gordon Messmer yinyang@eburg.com wrote:
On 05/20/2011 01:26 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to use a new SSD for moving all the disk i/o to, that Linux likes to do so often.
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.
If you're talking swap and tmp then you can get a DRAM drive which will be lightning fast but even with battery backup you can't expect the contents to be kept through a power cycle.