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><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Nope: SSDs are made of *RAM*. If you want them to retain anything at all</div>
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></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>No, these days most SSDs are made of Flash memory. It is persistent memory, and does not require current to retain data.</div><div><br></div> --Matt<br>