> Also, SSD drives wear out fast. We don't have good figures yet for > mass-produced drives (manufacturers introduce new models faster than the old > ones wear out, so it's hard to gather stats) but typical figures show a drive > failing in from 2,000 to 3,000 write cycles of each single block. Your drive > does something called 'wear levelling' and it has a certain number of blocks > spare and will automatically swap them in when the first blocks fail, but > after that your drive is smoke. And VACUUM /thrashes/ a drive, doing huge > amounts of reading and writing as it rebuilds tables and indexes. You don't > want to do something like that on an SSD without a good reason.
The SSD endurance experiment suggests that you might not need to worry too much about it: http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
