John Lockard wrote: > For spool, I would worry about the limited write (erase) cycles of > SSD. Sure, the speed of read/write is enormously appealing, but with > how much my spool gets hit I'd hate to have to set a really early > replacement schedule because my media can't handle many writes. > Rather than SSD for spool, RAM-Disk looks like a better way to go. I'm wondering about that. I haven't actually done any research into it, but I would have assumed that a spool actually would be pretty easy on the write cycles, because you just create the file, never modify it, and eventually delete it. If your spool is small, you might be doing that a few times for a full backup, but even then it seems to me that there should only be a couple writes to each cell per day. Let's say that you spool and despool 10 times for a full backup.
I think even the cheapest flash memory has an MTBF of 10,000 write cycles, which means that an SSD used for spooling should last for 1000 full backups - even more differential or incremental ones. Or is my reasoning wrong here? Without practical experience, that's entirely possible. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. Please be advised that the unauthorized use or disclosure of the information is strictly prohibited. The information herein is intended only for use by the intended recipient(s) named above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the e-mail and any copies, printouts or attachments thereof. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
