This is hilarious, thanks for making my day. :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Jay Ashworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com" target="_blank">jra@baylink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "Ronald Frazier" <<a href="mailto:ron@ronfrazier.net">ron@ronfrazier.net</a>><br>
<br>
> >What you have said above is true for Flash disks like SDHC,<br>
> > Compact Flash, etc but is not true for SSDs. These can be treated<br>
> > just like a normal hard disk.<br>
><br>
> Not entire true. They are still subject to wear out, but due to wear<br>
> leveling you are talking about sectors going bad in years, rather than<br>
> flash drives, where in the pathological case you could see sectors<br>
> failing in just days. That said, you still do have to take some steps<br>
> to get the best life out of the drive.<br>
<br>
</div>Nope: SSDs are made of *RAM*. If you want them to retain anything at all<br>
they have to be battery backed. And being made of RAM, they aren't subject<br>
to wear-leveling or anything; they don't wear any more than main memory<br>
does.<br>
<br>
In fact, unless you need a whole lot of ephemeral storage on a system<br>
where it's impractical to install it as main memory and make a ramdisk<br>
out of it, they have little justification -- especially at their price,<br>
which is uniformly pretty high.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
-- jra<br>
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