On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Scott Carey <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/5/11 7:07 AM, "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>One thing about MLC flash drives (which the industry seems to be >>moving towards) is that you have to factor drive lifespan into the >>total system balance of costs. Data point: had an ocz vertex 2 that >>burned out in ~ 18 months. In the post mortem, it was determined that >>the drive met and exceeded its 10k write limit -- this was a busy >>production box. > > What OCZ Drive? What controller? Indilinx? SandForce? Wear-leveling on > these vary quite a bit. SandForce SF-1200 -Dave -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance