Mark Miksis;692008 Wrote: 
> What does the drive manufacturer say about read/write cycles or other
> similar specs?  Is it different from a disk?  Personally, I wouldn't
> spend the money for an SSD until the "Just use the damn drive" rule
> applies.Normally, I'd be with you on this.  But I happened to have had a small
windfall burning a hole in my pocket and with Thai-flooded rotating
disk prices being so high...well, let's just say that this was one of
my relatively rare impulse purchases.

As to specs:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-520-specification.html

..and..

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-520-sandforce-review-benchmark,3124-11.html

Paraphrasing from that Tom's article, this drive will be worn out in
about 5 years if I write 7gigs of incompressible data to the drive
every day.  ..Which is probably unlikely.  More likely is that 75 year
figure...by which time I'll probably be running in a VM myself and LMS
will be nothing more than a optional module installed to my virtual
neo-cortex.

So...back to "just use the damn drive."


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