On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 09:57 -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote > Well, SSD's limited number of write cycles is largerly a myth these days [snip] > A storage drive should be usable in quasi every way. We aren't talking about an USB stick or DVD RW ;). If you need tricks to enlarge the lifetime, than it's a useless device. I already quoted the Wiki regarding to the lifetime. It's said that they have a longer lifetime than modern hard disk drives usually have got. If they shouldn't last long, just because Linux does write to often log files and you have to use tricks and need an additional hard disc drive, than this new devices are crap. Again, what's about noatime etc.? The way they're handled might be important in a way it's important for HDDs too, e.g. does the FS require something comparable to M$ FS defragmentation? But if a user needs to take care about read and write cycles for a storage device IMO make the usage of a computer too complicated. This is a task for the FS, the device's controller or whatever. How often does we need a log file after a regular shutdown? If you copy them for shutdown, you simply can abandon those files completely. Just an opinion, Ralf
