[ML-General] advice sought on SSD's

[Stephan Henning]

SSD life expectancy has been reasonable well documented for the various technologies. I'm not familiar with the Evo line, but I'm sure the info exists. It may be more common with enterprise grade flash, but with companies like Fusion, Violin, and EMC creating SAN flash arrays that are destined to effectively operate as cache the data has to exist somewhere. 

At the end of the day, the only way to be safe is to keep backups of anything you consider vital. 

Beyond that, I'd follow Hunter's advice and not worry. 

Good luck and enjoy the speed boost. :)

-stephan

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> On Mar 7, 2016, at 7:34 PM, Hunter Fuller <hfuller at pixilic.com> wrote:
> 
> My advice:
> - Turn off swap.
> - Install smartmontools and/or GSmartControl and configure them to
> tell you when your disk is about to die. Check the utilities manually
> if paranoid.
> - Don't worry about anything else.
> --
> Hunter Fuller
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 6:57 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>> No, they have nothing to do with venereal diseases.
>> 
>> For Debian Jessie on AMD64 platforms:
>> I just spent some big bucks (for me) on a 500 GB SSD (Samsung Evo) and
>> wondered what your opinion is on their lifetime?  Should I force things that
>> thrash the disks a lot (like Folding at home and maybe swap) onto a rotating
>> platter?  Swap is hardly used since I have 16 Gb core but FAH thrashes the
>> hard drive *all* the time; one can hear it constantly.  I've not installed
>> the SSD yet.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> David M.
>> 
>> 
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