Sun, 19 Jun 2016 08:09:24 -0700 Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> > I'd just use a regular install on a a modern SSD. flashrd and other > techniques are great for _cheap_ and potentially buggy or otherwise > less reliable flash, such as USB sticks or SD cards.
A gateway and a local server here both ran 5 yrs off a cheap 16 GB USB thumb drive, which I dismantled and stuck in the motherboards USB slot inside the box. This never saw a read-only file system, and had none issues the whole period with ~zero downtime. The USB sticks are still in use, and work to this day regular store and retrieve cycles. I now use spinning HDDs in the boxes, after I managed to rework them to have more reliable air flow. So the fanless SSD appliances put the SSDs in risk because of no fan, and not because of write operations, that's it. Plus HDDs are cheaper, and endure better higher temperatures than SSDs.
