SSDs

[Lisa Kachold]

Hello,

Resurrecting due to interesting article:

http://samsclass.info/121/proj/ssd-evaporation.htm

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Nadim Hoque <nadimhoque at gmail.com> wrote:

> Technically they are supposed to last just as long as regular hard drives
> but again the problem is that no one really tested in a production
> environment. From what I hear (I may be wrong) but most people use the ssd
> essentially as a cache space and even in enterprises they do. This is what
> I suggest you do with the SSD so that if the drive does die, you don't lose
> your important data.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have a question about SSDs.  I've read that they like the USB thumb
>> drives can be written to a certain number of times before they fail.  What
>> is the expected lifetime of an SSD?  They're terribly expensive if they're
>> only going to last 2 or 3 years.
>>
>> Derek
>>
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