On Thursday 07 May 2015 10:22:07 Dave Cole wrote: > Just running ext4. Yes, they will die eventually but apparently the > write leveling software in the drives pushes that out many years. > That drive I quoted isn't the fastest but it is fast enough and they > seem rock solid reliable. I would think their life could be enhanced by letting it take care of the wear leveling, which would reduce the re-write housekeeping. OTOH, if you haven't destroyed any in 3 years, that says a hell of a lot. So I'll gopher it. I took the slow, free shipping option so it will be 10 days or so.
In the meantime I might be able to grok why the X remoting is failing. I sure hope anyway. > > An interesting article on SSDs and Linux. Note that they recommend > using ext4. > http://www.leaseweblabs.com/2013/07/5-crucial-optimizations-for-ssd-us >age-in-ubuntu-linux/ I'll take a look, thanks. > > If I can get 6-7 years out of a drive I would be happy. Although my > gut feel is that these drives may go well beyond 10 years without much > difficulty. > If the MOBO is a good one, the next weak link seems to be the power > supply. > > Once I stick an SSD into an existing system, the number of calls for > emergency service seems to drop way off. They just don't screw > up/flake out as much. > Reliability goes way up. > > Dave Thanks Dave Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
