On 20110513_192743, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/13/2011 4:21 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > This seems like hi-jacking my sub-thread. I asked a question of Stan > > Hoeppner because I was puzzled about the status of the technology > > behind the techy-buzzword SSD. The unstated purpose of asking was to > > get some clarity, for me, as to what he was talking about. I don't > > want to be the cause of a outburst of name calling. Has there been a > > major advance that obsoletes old conventional wisdom? It might be. I > > don't know. And editing out things that are irrelevant to ones comment > > certainly muddles the context. An example of how e-list rules really > > just exacerbate a complex issue. > > Paul, the questions are you asking were most/all answered in detail in > the article I cited, or via simple Google searches. The question > directly below tells us you haven't read it, or anything at all about > SSDs, which means we can't have a decent discussion of the technology > without wasting thousands of typed characters bringing you up to speed, > in a totally OT thread no less. > > > By the way, what is MLC in this context? > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mlc > > With all due respect and no intention to hurt your feelings Paul, if you > don't already know what MLC, SLC, NAND, wear leveling, TRIM, etc are, > please duck out of this discussion until you've brought yourself up to > speed on SSD basics. You're not being fair to yourself or this list > with your participation, simply adding more useless noise to an already > noisy OT thread. > > The reason we're discussing SSD life span is lack of sufficient > authoritative/independent industry documentation on the subject, and FUD > resulting from that void. There is a plethora of SSD basics > documentation available.
As you say the thread is a bit OT. I mostly kept deleting new posts to it, but then I read a few while waiting for a response to one of my questions. I started with question, 'Why is this going on so long?' I think I did learn something interesting about SSD, maybe even some day useful to me. I rather like reading about things I know nothing about. Thanks. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110514040642.gc3...@big.lan.gnu