In the past in theme park ride applications we've had audio on SSDs.
The same audio gets read every few minutes virtually every day of the
year. Eventually the audio files developed bad spots. We started
recommending they record a full day's worth of the audio and play
sequentially to the end of the recording before starting over. That
solved the bad spots caused by reads.
This was a few years ago. Times might have changed. I am still leery
of SSDs, though.
{^_^}
On 2012/12/26 03:21, J.Witvliet@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Just my 2 cents, though personal experience.
18 months ago i replaced on a machine the traditional hdd with a sdd. And
indeed, it started and worked like greased lightning.
However, i installed it like i used to do, with swap....
One year (and many patches) later, i got that many bad blocks that the sdd was
completely useless.
So sdd has it merrits but:
A) no swap on sdd, so either enough mem, or swap on traditional hddm
B) keep things like /var so on hdd
C) if you _realy_ enough mem, put /var and /tmp on tmpfs (eg, in mem)
Hans
*Van*: Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. [mailto:eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx]
*Verzonden*: Friday, December 21, 2012 08:23 PM W. Europe Standard Time
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*Onderwerp*: Re: Partitioning between SDD and HDD
On 12/21/2012 11:51 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
You mean that all this hype over SSD's and they're LIMITED? I thought they
were supposed to be BETTER than the spinning drives of today? Exaclty how
are they better if they come "out-of-the-box" with limitations? Just
curious...
It's well known that flash devices have a limited number of writes. This
number is pretty high, though. And with caching and load-balancing built into
the drive's firmware, it is typically not a major concern.
However, although SSD devices have lightning-fast read performance, writing to
them is considerably slower. Think of the difference between reading a big
file from a flash thumb drive versus writing a big file. That doesn't mean
that you should never write to them, but if the intended use involves writing
very frequently (like /var or /tmp) then it might not be a good fit.
Also, SSD is much more expensive, byte-for-byte, than a hard drive. If you
want a lot storage (my /home partition is well over a terabyte) then SSD is
pretty cost prohibitive.
On the other hand, my system drive is SSD and, because of the fast read
performance, my computer boots, after the BIOS screen, in four seconds. From
the login screen to my desktop is another 2-3 seconds. Starting even very
large applications is pretty snappy.
WOW!.....talk about speeding up. Well I have a Gateway laptop so there's not
physical way I could do 2 different types of drives, but I also have a CentOS
desktop, maybe I can do it there, is SSD something that an old "Pentium 4" PC
could use? I think I'll look into this...do some Googling! Thanks for the info!
EGO II
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