On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:23:32AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > Have you done any actual calculation on this? A quick Google search on SSD > write > cycles shows more articles debunking this theory than supporting it.
Reading specifications of intel's SSD 320 line at the following link: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-320-enterprise-server-storage-application-specification-addendum.html states in section 2.3 Reliability that for 160GB drive the write endurance is 15TB, which gives about 94 full overwrite cycles. Not that much in my eyes. The point, however, is not whether the SSD in question will last 94 or 100 overwrites, but whether Debian's packaging system is not causing too much unneccessary write overhead. Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPds5_KNssZ_6oU+VVgtg2_jqvLp1yGGsvtAbz=isqtqj0f...@mail.gmail.com