<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Not sure what you’re even talking about here.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">120GB SSDs are under $20 almost everywhere, including Best Buy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And 64gB Class 10 SD cards are under $10, which are still likely to be way faster than your old “dinosaur” can saturate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Never mind that you can easily run a full-blown Linux distro from a 1 GB SD flash that will last at least as long as a spinning HDD. And with 8GB of RAM, it’ll be running almost entirely out of RAM and will thus run extremely fast b/c it won’t be reading from the “disk” hardly at all.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’re not talking MEGA-BYTES here, we’re talking GIGA-BYTES. An entire Linux distro is like around 100 MEGS or so without all of the UI bloat?<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The way you’re calculating what you think is risk means you should probably go back to storing your data on paper tape.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s something I found that talks about SSD lifetime ratings:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://u2206659.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=3cK2FVJjyu2N-2Bxco034fZrF0HdtK4hjbBBfbBSvju7yHokerjHU-2FmnzNGJxjKSrrcmlPfTmtniYIXjiafXbf3j65oBd4rrwVBRTYox6qQEIqeHpPPbtY2a90WOTJUTCx_6lpMB7VLnN-2Fj9-2FEErg8-2F-2BMBpb5QxlByTgv2M3fbWD9ebvC-2BWrN3h7jImK8EVWYBelRwk0vzJQvHL4s80cIorBpNckDLNYJpqFSI-2Fq2tCXQh4RUlzNyiLF9QZjv9dMbLroIyPQCQGMLIMKzVvH8BTS8ivZdl5Js1Ci-2FWaxfSHTa8ndKj1-2FUi86r89GZNgSLY7YvzmaiWu8KoSHnDLv-2BvScn40jQbO4Zf7LF44nRnz4vw-3D" class="">https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-hardware/ssd-lifespan.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This whole thread really makes very little sense to me. Data centers (including CDNs) have been migrating to 100% SSDs on their servers for several years now because they have a longer MTBF / GB stored, they’re WAY faster, they take less power and generate far less heat.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You seem to forget … tape backup units are quite cheap and plentiful these days in case you want to save all that precious data for the inevitable “disk crash” in a few years.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And if you’ve only got 10GB of stuff saved, then heck, just buy a handful of 32GB SDs ($4/ea) and you’ll have more backup storage than you’d ever need.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SDs are the new Floppy disks for backup storage.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 1, 2019, at 10:27 PM, Jim <<a href="mailto:azanorak@gmail.com" class="">azanorak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">On 12/1/19 2:57 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I should add, that you can run a hybrid setup where you run your system on the SSD and put your home directory on an spinning drive. That's actually how I have most of my systems setup as I use a HUGE amount of space. That way all the stuff that needs to be fast is and the stuff that just needs to be stored is on the cheaper spinning disks.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This is what I do because I can't afford 10 GB of SSDs for the video and music I have stored on this dinosaur. It's my home entertainment center. Whenever I get a music or video disc, it gets copied to spinning rust. This saves my optical discs free from normal wear and tear.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div><img src="https://u2206659.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/open?upn=6lpMB7VLnN-2Fj9-2FEErg8-2F-2BMBpb5QxlByTgv2M3fbWD9ebvC-2BWrN3h7jImK8EVWYBelRwk0vzJQvHL4s80cIorBgl4rMbZvzE81Jz6hVE3DLqStjS5yT9aLUNsdMOOdjhVtujUUlDodBM4A1F4YlGi5-2Buvee3CCdGYB0MCghPmmi-2FOBqJ7M6s4058JilzZCfpvqybtQ0-2F2z9x3ShOtlWRUKHY4BIErA1viUSfmCauil3PrFzxrRAvAmiaCMtpcCf3S" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" style="height:1px !important;width:1px !important;border-width:0 !important;margin-top:0 !important;margin-bottom:0 !important;margin-right:0 !important;margin-left:0 !important;padding-top:0 !important;padding-bottom:0 !important;padding-right:0 !important;padding-left:0 !important;"/></body></html>