Once upon a time, Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> said: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:27:14 -0600 > Chris Murphy wrote: > > Yeah I agree there's too much nervousness about SSD wear issues. > > And, of course, hard disks just never fail in comparison, right? :-).
Of course they do. The difference is that traditional hard drives don't generally have a lifetime measured by number of writes. Hard drives have decades of institutional experience, while SSDs (and their failure modes) are new and different. And, new (and no experience) is always "scary". With traditional hard drives, failure modes are mitigated by RAID (to keep the system running) and backups (to protect the data from drive and other types of failure). With any storage, you should still do backups, but for a while RAID setups didn't pass through TRIM commands and so were not recommended for SSDs. That took away a "warm fuzzy feeling" for storage administrators, and the fact that some (many?) of the early consumer SSDs were not terribly reliable didn't help. Now, I have SSDs in all my home computers (desktop, server, notebook, and HTPC). I still have "spinning rust" hard drives in my network disk server, because I don't want to pay for 3TB of SSD (and hard drives are plenty fast for that type of storage). -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
