[mythtv-users] SSD disk for DB

[Matt Mossholder]

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

> 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
>

No, these days most SSDs are made of Flash memory. It is persistent memory,
and does not require current to retain data.

     --Matt
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