buying a new SSD to replace your "burned out" one every year is still cheaper than building a 15k sas drive raid set with equivalent performance.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Robert <info...@die-optimisten.net> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:01:51 -0800 > Claus Assmann <ca+openbsd_m...@esmtp.org> wrote: >> software? I would like to try an SSD as mail queue FS etc. > > I'm not sure if that is a good idea. SSDs are Flash memory and have a > limited read/write cycle. The firmware tries to optimize this by not > always writing to the same address. But since it seems that you want to > use it for a high-volume mail server this will have an impact. Better > check the Web for some wear&tear tests of this drive... > > kind regards, > Robert
