Jerry Franz wrote:
> 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.
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Do note that the server-grade SSDs are far more reliable than the
consumer-grade crap.
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