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

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Attila Kinali writes:

 > Also keep in mind that SSDs have been previously marketed for the server
 > busines, where reliability was more important than price (at least to
 > some extend). But nowadays, nearly all SSDs are consumer products, where
 > quality counts very little, especially if not visible within the first
 > month, but price is everything.
 > 
 > If you really need SSDs with high life time, there are manufacturers
 > who build SSDs with single level NAND Flash, that have a 100k cycle life time.
 > But they are factor of >10 more expensive (factor 2-4 because of the more
 > expensive flash chips, and another factor 2-10 because of the lower volumes).

It sounds to me that for Raymond (or his boss, anyway) time is money.

And since he's looking to use it for scratch space, I would say he
might as well just use consumer-grade stuff and replace it as it goes
bad.

That doesn't address the problem that he doesn't know how he wants to
use it, of course!  But once he decides that, replace-as-needed sounds
like a reasonable strategy.