NVMe SSD's

[Michael Butash]

I've been doing so for probably a good 7-8 years now in various 
capacities with single disk or raid, but been doing raid usually 
choosing even laptops with dual drive capabilities for the past 5-6 years.

Most ssd's have died within a year, but usually only one.  My desktop 
with Crucial C100's tossed the disk after 6 months, and I've been 
running the other without a net for a year and a half since without a 
problem.  It's still in the mdraid, but with no peer, and take power 
hits and crashes (yay plasma!) commonly without issue in recovery.

My exception has been my last laptop, a little dell e7240 with dual 
msata slots I used Samsung Evo 940 512gb disks in.  They've been both 2 
years as a champ, recovering every time a resync has been needed after a 
power loss without issue or degradation. Definitely going Samsung again 
next time, everything else has sucked, including Adata, Crucial, and 
others I've forgotten.

My links are all pretty old, I've been using this recipe for a bit, only 
last deviation was figuring out how to do it with EFI of my crappy asus 
laptop work gave me for a bit to use.  I think I've posted my recipe for 
it here before if you search me in archives, I can again if interested.

I have a dell precision desktop coming that is basically a poweredge 
server with dual xeons I can pack with ram, so it better darn well 
present me a legacy bios to boot linux with my usual formula.  Just 
wondering since i have to get ssd's again for it if I should go with 
NVMe's.  If I wait a few weeks, the new Samsung 960's should be out too 
- enough time to figure out figure out xen on it natively for desktop 
use (another long story).

-mb


On 10/27/2016 02:17 PM, Nathan England wrote:
>
> I have so far stuck with Samsung SSDs for the fde, as I was afraid 
> running luks would shorten the life span. How long have you been 
> running an SSD with luks? Have you noticed any degredation?
>
> Or seen any good articles about it?
>
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