On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Karthik Narayanaswami <[email protected]>wrote:
> SSD lives, even pushed to max write > rates, have been shown to average 7+ years, which is higher than most > storages. > Arun SAG has already given the citation, but I might add one more bit here. SSD is nothing more than a fancy big pen drive. Pen drives fail miserably is my personal experience too.(I have never had one that lasted 3 years!) Of course they are faster than other storage. Windows guys even introduced a 'feature' to use pendrive as swap space to increase swap speed. -- அகிலன் (Akilan R) [ blog.akilan.in ] *I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.* --Jean Rostand _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
