Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

[Frank Bauer <frank.c.bauer@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:23:32AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
>
> Have you done any actual calculation on this? A quick Google search on SSD write
> cycles shows more articles debunking this theory than supporting it.

Reading specifications of intel's SSD 320 line at the following link:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-320-enterprise-server-storage-application-specification-addendum.html

states in section 2.3 Reliability that for 160GB drive the write
endurance is 15TB, which gives about 94 full overwrite cycles. Not
that much in my eyes.

The point, however, is not whether the SSD in question will last 94 or
100 overwrites, but whether Debian's packaging system is not causing
too much unneccessary write overhead.

Frank