Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, John Lockard wrote: > > >> For spool, I would worry about the limited write (erase) >> cycles of SSD. >> > > SLC drives are good for at least 100,000 cycles and all current SSD drives > use wear levelling plus even more generous levels of sparing than > mechanical HDDs. Even for constant spooling/unspooling (which is likely > less wear than some other operations) that translates to a disk lifetime > well in excess of the rest of the server components. > > WRT the ramdisk comment: Yes, but...... how much is 100+Gb of ram? >
Here's an article on why write endurance is no longer a problem for flash SSDs. http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html > AB > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
