On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Kevin K <kevink1 at fidnet.com> wrote: > > On May 23, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kevin Thorpe >> <kevin.thorpe at pibenchmark.com> 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. >>> >> >> >> Doesn't SATA and SAS drives also wear out? > > A SSD drive can be a SATA drive. SATA is the connection/protocol between the drive and the computer. Not quite. SATA is a type of drive, same as IDE / ATA, SCSI, SATA :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532