Re: OT: Best kind of distro for SSD?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> As HDDs don't lose data from extended periods of being without power,
>> and this thread is about SSDs, I'm going to assume that you meant SSDs
>> here, not "hard drives".
> Nope.  It's my understanding that the board on HDDs has some small amount of
> flash memory on it,  used for what purpose I don't know.

Indeed they store their firmware in an onboard flash memory, but there's
a wide variety of "flash memory", and the flash memory used to store
a small amount of code for a firmware is fairly different from the flash
memory used to store the GBs of data in a modern SSD, because the design
constraints are very different w.r.t to:

- Frequency of writes.
- Importance of speed when writing.
- Importance of the cost per byte.
- ...


        Stefan