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Offline whiteb

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Re: SSD 'Friendly' OS/Filesystem
« on: January 24, 2009, 10:42:29 PM »
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motorollin wrote:
Anything which swaps out a lot or otherwise carries out a lot of disk writes will be bad for solid state drives, as flash memory has limited rewrite cycles, beyond which the memory will begin to degrade. I don't know the extent to which this affects SSD, but it is certainly a consideration for Compact Flash.



I dont know, the IBM white paper says that you can write 100GB a day for 5 years without fear of hitting a dead cell on the drive.  I dunno, that was what i read from IBM.
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