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[Discuss] SSD drives vs. Mechanical drives



Kent Borg wrote:
>  - Flash can die with no warning and no recourse.

Any medium can fail with no warning. Good backups have always been the
go-to recourse for these occurrences.

>  - Flash hates writes.

Yep. Like I described earlier in the thread.

> extra is sitting mostly blank. I think wear-leveling happens across the
> whole device, all of the sectors I can refrain writing to are a benefit.

Most SSD controllers will move data in the background so that wear
leveling really is leveled across the entire array of flash cells.

I suggest looking at EnhanceIO. It works a lot like Intel's SRT, using
the SSD as a cache for slower block devices. You'll get the flash read
performance benefits without the worries about flash wear. Sure, the
cache drive will fail but that failure won't damage your data.

-- 
Rich P.



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