On Thursday 23 June 2011 16:51:21 Jack Norton wrote: > Charles, I'm glad you pointed out your woes with the SSD, I had > considered purchasing an SSD for my cpu/fs but I didn't want to gamble > with such a costly device. Now I have every reason to avoid it (I've > seen similar testimonies). I figured flash memory was perfect for venti > -- but not without some stability. Plus, there are 1TB 2.5" consumer > drives out for just north of $100! What a world we live in. By the > time I fill that, there will be 2TB 2.5" drives...
The word out there is that it's the newfangled SSDs with lots of smarts onboard (like built-in deduplication) that are particularly prone to sudden failure. Unfortunately the older ones don't come in sensible capacities. I have a very old 16GB SSD extracted from Asus EeePC; it's kind of slow, but should be very simple and thus reliable. Serves well with NILFS2 FS (currently Linux and *BSD specific) on it. On the other hand, if you can burn $$$, there are enterprisey SSDs based on SLC Flash, built in form of PCIE cards, should be quite reliable. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2667398 -- dexen deVries ``One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.''
