On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:47:05AM -0700, Lamont Granquist spake thusly: > Can I use a Flash SSD anywhere in this use case?
Are you having any sort of performance issues that would justify the use of the much more expensive flash device over a standard cheap hard drive? Here is a great article (although it is a confusingly formatted page): http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html If you had a 64G flash device which was rewriteable 2 million times (which may be on the low end even, I can't find the rewrite spec for the Intel SSD) you would have to write 64G*2,000,000 writes = 128 petabytes. 128P/73T per year means this could last you for 1,753 years. Is my math right? It's so easy to be off by an order of magnitude in this stuff. So even assuming the write balancing is very inefficient and gets you a tenth of this performance you have 175 years. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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