If it's fast enough to allow one to work unimpeded, has acceptable lifetime/reliability, and uses less power/generates less heat than traditional platter HD - I'd say it's a good solution. It's not a one size fits all world.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:25 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Cc: Gary Kline Subject: Re: you're not going to believe this. > 99.8% solution waiting for the 99.9% solution. > > As for "emulating a hard drive", its only slow relative to potential it's a nonsense to pay for emulation layer that slows down real devices. And random filesystem writes could be much faster on flash than on disk - if properly designed _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" <font size="1"> <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> </div> "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." </font> _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"