On 2014-10-30 13:06, Jeppe Øland wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Jim Thompson<[email protected]> wrote:
>>On the other hand, I tend to distrust manufacturers that shipped
>>completely unreliable drives without any thought.
>>Kingston/OCZ/Crucial are all in this boat for me.
>
>I’m sure I’ve been burned at least as badly by these, and others, and I
>still buy from them.
What can you do?
Buy quality instead of junk? I've been burned by OCZ and Crucial for
sure (including silent write failures!), although I'm not sure I've ever
had a Kingston.
http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retention-after-600tb
tl;dr: Buy Intel, or very specific Samsung SSDs. For non-endurance
testing, you'll have better reliability out of a modern, quality SSD
than rotational drives, both on a per-drive and per-GB basis.
The speed increase from SSDs in a PC means its almost
impossible to go back to an HDD.
And in a firewall/appliance, the benefits from no moving parts/lower
power/heat/noise is hard to ignore.
There are use cases for rotational drives, primarily where $/GB is a
factor and performance isn't, but I tend toward small SSDs over
rotational drives unless there is a strong use-case for bulk storage. I
really can't imagine using a workstation without a SSD as primary
storage though, I just don't have the patience.
Even a cheapo 30GB/60GB/whatever SSD is more than enough for pfSense and
makes a far more reliable solution than external flash.
--
Dave Warren
http://www.hireahit.com/
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren
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