Re: [tlug] Making better use of SSDs?: Beware of Heavy Write Usage

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi,


On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:39 AM,  <jep200404@example.com> wrote:
> Writes wear out SSDs. Better SSDs do a better job of spreading the
> writes out to not prematurely wear out one spot of the drive,
> but still they wear out. A good use of SSDs is for read-only
> or write seldome cachey kind of stuff, like /usr. Using SSDs
> for lots of writes is asking for trouble.


*doh*  I didn't realize that!  Thanks for letting me know!  I'll see
if the people making the decision to go down this path is willing to
reconsider their use of the SSD...

Thank you!

Ray