On 6/17/2011 10:03 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Tomas Bodzar<tomas.bod...@gmail.com> wrote:
You will not be happy with reliability of SSD
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scal
e.html
After lots and lots of useless blather, the first interesting tidbit
shows up in a comment more than halfway down the page:
| Over at blekko, we've had 3 SSD failures after 1.5 years, out of
| 700 drives. These are Intel X-25M 160G2 drives.
That's the sort of figure you'd expect for spinning platters, too.
Yeah, this is a terrible blog post. Like the commenters on it say, there
must have been environmental factors like heat or bad power.
YMMV but, I have about 60 SSDs in production and haven't had a single
one fail in the ~1.5 years we've been moving everything to SSD. Crucial
32Gs in half dozen OpenBSD router pairs all running smoothly. RAID10s of
Intel X-25Ms and 320s and (soon!) 510s. I love SSDs.
I decided, for my fairly basic router needs, to not use RAID in OpenBSD
and instead rely on CARP and backups. I am more worried about the power
supply and the motherboard going wonky before the SSD.
