>> we are probably running out of topic here, but for the record, there is >> also someone lamenting about ssd
> I find all of this highly on-topic. SSD reliability is an important > issue. We use customer-grade SSDs (Intel 510 were the latest ones > bought) in our servers as we see no point in enterprise-grade > reliability when we are mirroring machines. Yes, it is on-topic. Tks for all informations. >> so, as far as developer machines are involved, you should go for OSes >> that use the disk efficiently [...] > Efficiently as speed, yes. Efficiently as minimizing writes, no. On the > contrary, disk swapping is much faster on SSDs along with temporary > files and all the other secondary writes that are done throughout the > day. Hit them hard. They're designed for it. Good... the speed is not a most important parameter always. The merge of SSD and NON-SSD ( backup? low relevance/old records? etc.. ). for me, is a example of complete solution ( fast and secure ) using lucene. -- I$@I@$
