[mythtv-users] SSD disk for DB

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Oct 8 22:47:25 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Mossholder" <matt at mossholder.com>

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

<sigh>

I see they've allowed the abbreviation to become muddled.

SSD meant, very specifically, something built out of RAM, for *quite a long
time* before anything of any practical size was built out of Flash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

Cheers,
-- jra
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