On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:03:30PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > degrade. You might be better off in the long run using multiple > rotating disks that are half as fast, and half the price, but won't > degrade.
It's my understanding that if you have a decent SSD, write response times can (under some workloads) degrade but never below the performance of even a very fast rotating disk. So, i've stopped worrying about things like TRIM and trying to avoid writes. I'll align my partitions, but apart from that I just enjoy the extremely low read response times, and my almost-always-quite-low write response times. :) -- Jurjen Oskam Savage's Law of Expediency: You want it bad, you'll get it bad.