On 01/03/2012 06:36 PM, Les Newell wrote:
> I have had some bad experiences with SSDs. So far in about 18 months I
> have killed three in my office computer and one in my network server.
> Three were Kingston V series and one was a Samsung. I had the same
> issues with all of them. Initially they worked great but after some
> months they started locking up when writing to them. After rebooting a
> chunk of the file system would be missing.
>
> I have however had no problems with CF cards. They are slow but I have
> never had a failure that couldn't be attributed to electrical or
> physical abuse. I am currently using one in my lathe (running EMC of
> course) and one in my network server. Both have been in use for a couple
> of years. You can get SATA CF card adapters if you don't have PATA on
> the motherboard.
>
> Les
>
Les,
With all the writes that usually happens to a network server, a SSD
is probably a poor choice for that application. Writes to a SSD are
what shortens the lifespan.
Any of you guys looked at the hybrid drives? Here's one at Newegg
- 750 GB 7200 RPM, 32 MB cache with an 8 GB SLC NAND (the SSD portion of
the hybrid).
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148837>
The also have a 500 GB version with 4 Gigs of solid state memory:
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591>
Plant your OS partition on the solid state portion, and put all your
other partitions that will see lotsa writes on the spinning platter side
of the drive. Longer life for the SSD portion of the drive that way.
Mark
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