[mythtv-users] SSD disk for DB

[James Hall]

This is hilarious, thanks for making my day. :)

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ronald Frazier" <ron at ronfrazier.net>
>
> > >What you have said above is true for Flash disks like SDHC,
> > > Compact Flash, etc but is not true for SSDs. These can be treated
> > > just like a normal hard disk.
> >
> > Not entire true. They are still subject to wear out, but due to wear
> > leveling you are talking about sectors going bad in years, rather than
> > flash drives, where in the pathological case you could see sectors
> > failing in just days. That said, you still do have to take some steps
> > to get the best life out of the drive.
>
> Nope: SSDs are made of *RAM*.  If you want them to retain anything at all
> they have to be battery backed.  And being made of RAM, they aren't subject
> to wear-leveling or anything; they don't wear any more than main memory
> does.
>
> In fact, unless you need a whole lot of ephemeral storage on a system
> where it's impractical to install it as main memory and make a ramdisk
> out of it, they have little justification -- especially at their price,
> which is uniformly pretty high.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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