On 03/13/2013 09:15 AM, John Lister wrote:
On 13/03/2013 15:50, Greg Jaskiewicz wrote:
SSDs have much shorter life then spinning drives, so what do you do
when one inevitably fails in your system ?
Define much shorter? I accept they have a limited no of writes, but
that depends on load. You can actively monitor the drives "health"
level...
What concerns me more than wear is this:
InfoWorld Article:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/solid-state-drives/test-your-ssds-or-risk-massive-data-loss-researchers-warn-213715
Referenced research paper:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast13/understanding-robustness-ssds-under-power-fault
Kind of messes with the "D" in ACID.
Cheers,
Steve
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