Even the cheapest stuff nowadays has some more or less decent wear leveling algorithm built into their controller so this won't be a problem. Wear leveling algorithms cycle the blocks internally so wear evens out on the whole disk. -K. On 12/22/2015 06:57 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > I would also add that the journal activity is write intensive so a small part of the drive would get excessive writes if the journal and data are co-located on an SSD. This would also be the case where an SSD has multiple journals associated with many HDDs. > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com