On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> wrote: >>> And no, TRIM isn't supported.
>> The problem is that we're copying the entire disk, so, as far as the disk >> (i.e., SSDs) is aware, that disk is 100% full-- all blocks are marked as >> used even if they're empty. If I understand correctly, how the >> controller handles block reallocation in this scenario depends how it is > You are. The whole not write so often is really really really > uninteresting. It's not about writing too often, it's about the performance hit doing a read/modify/write when there's no free blocks. Like the 4k sector problem, but potentially even worse. On the other hand, it depends on how much writing your server will do in service. If you aren't writing large files, you won't notice much difference, and the benefit of ultra fast random access is more than worth it.
