SSD's Do have a limited number of writes. That number is pretty high, but there is a limit. SSD's really shine in Read Mode and can have read times 10x of a spinning drive. writes are faster too, maybe (3x or so ).
I don't know how in Linux or even if you can, but on some of the servers I work we can pin files into memory that we know are going to get high usage and then flush them to disk when we are done. I have a client that does this, course they have 256GB of memory to do it in :) On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, website reader <[email protected]>wrote: > While I understand that solid state drives considerably speed things > up on the motherboard, others have discouraged me from purchasing > such, stating that the NAND technology only permits a limited number > of writes. > > My applications are number theory processing and image fft analysis, > so will my system eventually fall victim to the limited write cycles > of the NAND solid state drives? I do hammer files continuously > sometimes. > > Does anyone have some experience with ssd? > > The newer drives (particularly Intel and OCZ) look very promising... but > ??? > > - Randall > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Kirk _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
