Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:01:12 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: solid state drives? Message-ID: <20140822170112.69830ad9@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <53F2399D.5050609@hiwaay.net> References: <53F22E89.3050005@rcn.com> <53F2399D.5050609@hiwaay.net>
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:36:29 -0500 William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > None of the SSD's are/will be as durable as spinning drives for > writes .... That said, the SLC type are more durable than MLC or > TLC .... Also more $$$$ & usually only available in smaller sizes. > Good for a root drive, i.e. mostly read-olny operations. Swap & > everything else on spinning platters .... A typical modern 120GB MLC SSD will have a specified write endurance of around 8TB which is equivalent to 1GB a day for 22 years. They should be fine for most things where there's nothing doing heavy duty writing.
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