Re: Progress on my new Debian box
Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> On 24/06/2014 3:16 AM, Bzzzz wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400
>> Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>>> I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM,
>>> 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run,
>>> and swap partition,
>>
>> As a SSD has limited write capacities, people usually avoid using it
>> for things that are often (re)written. Unfortunately, you just
>> indicate _all_ wrong directories to store on a SSD…
> I believe that would be true of quite /old/ SSD drives, but definitely
> not for newer ones. The new drives are subject to write issues, but
> to hit that problem will take just as long as a traditional spinning
> drive -- they too have limits, spinning drives are mechanical.
> There have been very heavy torture tests on thew newer range of SSDs
> and they are performing exceptionally well with mega data being
> written [1], up to fairly heavy data usage levels.
Right.
Last paragraphs from that TechReport paper:
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| Given our limited sample size, I wouldn't read too much into exactly how
| many writes each drive handled. The more important takeaway is that all
| of the SSDs, including the 840 Series, performed flawlessly through
| hundreds of terabytes. A typical consumer won't write anything close to
| that much data over the useful life of a drive.
|
| Even with only six subjects, the fact that we didn't experience any
| failures until after 700TB is a testament to the endurance of modern
| SSDs. So is the fact that three of our subjects have now written over a
| petabyte. That's an astounding total for consumer-grade drives, and the
| Corsair Neutron GTX, Samsung 840 Pro, and compressible Kingston HyperX
| 3K are still going!
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Grüße,
Sven.
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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
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