RE: Using SSD's..
"Marcel van Dorp [Maeslant Engineering]" <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:53:42 +0200
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>I used to work with these for a while. At the time they were called DOM (DiskOnModule) and then the SSD came out ans the term changed. > >They last about 2 years and then you will start losing bits here tand there. The read/write cycles may reach the limit pretty quickly if you have intense operations like swap or frequent read/write on >certain files. > >I would use it just as a boot partition with all tools and utilities on it. This way it may last longer. > >ET This is valuable info. I don't expect very much write actions since they will function as ntp server and hosting dns slave zones, I'm looking into a way to use ramdrives for temporal storage of the zones. What amount of storage do you normally need for a minimal install running NTP daemon and BIND? Thanks, Marcel