http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/530926/new_supercomputer_uses_ssds_alternative_dram_hard_drives/
Although this is a “consumer-grade” IT press article from ComputerWorld, it indicates to me that SSDs are now more than a throw-away consumable. As Ken suggests, if almost all laptops (and all tablets) are supplied with solid state drives, and we’re not hearing alarmist reports (like the “Li batteries catching fire” news of a couple of years ago), then we should be able to choose an SSD with a reliable reputation. Intel? _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 2:08 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 4:55 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD After reading some technical stuff on SSDs several weeks ago and how they work and wear-levelling and the like I became a bit worried and moved the swap file to a HDD in an attempt to cut down the writes. It's actually a bit worrying how SSDs work when you look into them. Whilst the idea of a really fast swap file is nice, the implementation of SSD's suggest that its a bad combo. Unless you do something like use a dedicated SSD for the swap drive, and eat the cost when it dies. I'm still a bit wary about the integrity of 'dirty' data on the swap file getting written thru to a magnetic drive. Thoughts? Just about every laptop sold today is SSD only – no option to put the swap file on a mechanical drive, and there doesn’t seem to be widespread reports of mass failure of laptop drives. As I mentioned in the previous post (and you can check on the main tech forums like AnandTech etc.), current generation SSDs seem capable of many terabytes of writes. Cheers Ken
