On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Karl Fife <karlf...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you want to run the full version on embedded, there are lots of SSD's > these days with wear-leveling subsystems to address the "write endurance" > issue of nand flash memory. Some SSD's (such as Intel's newest SSD family) > even take it a step further by adding extra blocks to swap out when a block > becomes exhausted. Intel's version apparently also does something like > S.M.A.R.T., but instead of monitoring the length and growth rate of the > master defect table, the SSD equivalent of SMART instead monitors the pool > of spares and can inform the OS when a disk failure is in approaching. Many > of us have hard-won experience indicating that SMART is pretty crappy > (because growth characteristics of the master defect table are in fact only > loosely correlated with actual disk failure), but I suspect that the SSD > equivalent will provide a reliable prediction. > > I tend to think we're at the dawn of a new era in storage. With SSD's & > low-power fanless ITX systems, it seems like the line between 'full' and > 'embedded' is becoming a bit fuzzy. >
SSD is considerably different than CF, SSDs should be treated like a hard drive. The SMART capabilities added to 2.0 work nicely on SSD from what I've seen thus far. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
