[CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Tue May 24 16:57:41 UTC 2011
On 05/24/11 9:36 AM, Devin Reade wrote:
> --On Monday, May 23, 2011 05:05:38 PM -0700 R - elists
> <lists07 at abbacomm.net> wrote:
>
>> what specific units are considered server grade ssd's ?
> What you want to look for in your drive specs are the acronyms
> SLC and MLC.
>
> SLC is enterprise grade, smaller capacity, expensive
> MLC is consumer grade, larger capacity, cheap(er)
>
> Expected lifetimes are typically at least 10x better for SLC.
also you want SSD that has a supercap on its internal cache so pending
writes aren't lost in a power failure scenario.
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