Re: [Dovecot] OT/about SSDs

2013-05-05 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
Honestly guys, most people really have no long-term experiences with flash memory, be it SSD or other forms of. I can tell you from continously using simple CF-Cards as harddisks for about 5 years that _none_ ever got corrupted. Not a single one in 5 years. Taking into account that CF is really no

Re: [Dovecot] OT/about SSDs

2013-05-05 Thread Reindl Harald
and this will hurt all the naive people which start buying large mid-range SSD storages and wake up from their dreams the hard way over the long it will take years until large storages are relieable enough for critical data if you are not a fortune company with endless money a rotating media will

Re: [Dovecot] OT/about SSDs (was: XFS vs EXT4 for mail storage)

2013-05-05 Thread dirk . jahnke-zumbusch
Hi all, I found a reference about the robustness of SSDs (and rotating rust) on c0t0d0s0.org (http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7578-Switching-off-SSDs-and-the-consequences.html) pointing to this interesting paper: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~zhengm/papers/2013_FAST_PowerFaultSSD.pdf Just in