Re: Home Directory in SSD

Hi MartinThose tests were performed in December 2014 some 14 months ago. Since then we have newer designs and better SSD microcode. 

To the readers who are worried about SWAP and heavy drive use.
Do you write 20 terrabytes per day for the next 3 years?  That is what the vendors appear to offer. And the test to Death of SSDs indicated around 100 terrabytes per year for three years.
or (10**3)terrabytes before experiencing problems.  Newer design drives (2016) are even better, having larger capacity and more free (spare) pages.
 Regards 
 Leslie
 Mr. Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada



 
      From: Martin Steigerwald <[email protected]>
 To: [email protected] 
 Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2016 5:06 AM
 Subject: Re: Home Directory in SSD
   
Am Sonntag, 7. Februar 2016, 00:11:30 CET schrieb Aleksandar Atanasov:
> As for the quality of SSDs - yes, it has improved greatly (example for
> some test of longevity:
> http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking
> -petabytes). I have read however that SSDs are much more susceptible to
> power failure compared to HDDs leading to a higher data corruption in case
> a poor electrical grid is used to power the device up. However in terms of
> protecting your data from shocks (dropping the notebook onto the floor)
> SSDs are definitely much better. Because of the mechanics that are involved
> in HDDs, such drives are less suitable for the task of storing data on
> mobile devices.

Depends on whether the SSD uses condensators to provide some energy in case of 
sudden power loss or not. And on whether there are bugs with that like in the 
Intel SSD 320. Luckily I never encountered the bug (that basically trashes the 
device), but I also keep my laptop battery inside the laptop at all time just 
for safety.

-- 
Martin