On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Nicholas Leippe <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you're worried about longevity/write wearing, don't. If you need > convincing why it's not an issue, see this article: > > http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html It may be unrelated to write wearing, but I just had an Mtron SSD that was a few years old go south on me. It's not completely dead, but I was using it as my boot drive and performance had become terrible and eventually got to the point where it would just hang after a short while. It is an old one, and I'm not exactly sure how old because I got it secondhand, but I was disappointed that it didn't last very long for me. I know SSDs have some pretty fancy firmware in them to manage the actual flash storage, so it's possible that the firmware had just got the storage into an untenable state that could be recovered through some sort of reformat, but it is an old part that didn't particularly impress me with its performance when I first installed it, so I didn't consider it worth the effort of trying to save. Anyway, my point is that whether it be by write wearing or something else, SSDs can kick the bucket unexpectedly too, and they don't appear to my admittedly non-representative experience to be exceptionally reliable. --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
