Re: SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition

[Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Kevin K <kevink1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On May 23, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kevin Thorpe
>> <kevin.thorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Just be aware that SSDs wear out. They have a limited number of write
>>> cycles.
>>> Nowadays they all do 'wear levelling' to even the writes across the drive
>>> but
>>> even so they don't last very long in heavy write usage.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Doesn't SATA and SAS drives also wear out?
>
> A SSD drive can be a SATA drive.  SATA is the connection/protocol between the drive and the computer.



Not quite. SATA is a type of drive, same as IDE / ATA, SCSI, SATA :)


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