Re: SSD vs HDD

Enterprise drives usually ship with double the flash it actually needs
to provide the capacity, plus the are SLC which can sustain around
100'000 erase/write cycles. Also, the controller dynamically remaps
sectors to provide even write distribution.

While this is still a new technology, it's nowhere near as bad as
you're trying to make it sound.

I'm not trying to make *it* sound bad, I'm trying to make *me* sound
concerned. The more mission-critical it gets, the more important it is
that you can count on it. I DO believe that SSD drives will eventually
take the place of mechanical hard drives. It's a fun proof-of-concept
right now to see them run rings around traditional hard drives in speed. I
just want to see them get a bit more robust before I consider them ready
for prime time.

I think that I've heard in normal PC applications a SSD will run for about
5 years before going read-only. My point is just that in the world of the
i, it seems like the usage would be more intense, the cost-performance
would be more of an issue, and the critical nature of the data would be
more valuable.


Dave Parnin