On 5/27/08, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a friend with EMC who is very excited about the new SSD > subsystems which are beginning to appear. They sound very nice. Being > "green" and all.
The challenge is lifetime. You can't rewrite flash that often and the various vendors distinguish themselves by the algorithms to spread the writes over the device. Considering the fact that it does not have a motor to spin, I was rather disappointed to see it still use 30% of what a hard disk does... Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
