Subj : To shuck or not to shuck.
To   : Nopants
From : Weatherman
Date : Sat Jan 27 2024 02:14:00

-=> Nopants wrote to Lodinsetki <=-

 No>   Re: To shuck or not to shuck.
 No>   By: Lodinsetki to Digital Man on Fri Jan 19 2024 08:38 am

 > {have had Many SSD die} But the spinner still spins.

 No> I've had really good luck with SSDs.  The one I killed was holding
 No> virtual machines, so likely very high i/o.  But, it did take awhile.
 No> SSDs I have used for storage have been good to me.  Like you say, it
 No> depends on the use case.

SSDs are great for OS drives but any use scenario with heavy I/O operations
will eventually hit the write/rewrite limit on SSD cells.  In my work
environment OS drives are SSDs and storage drives are spinning drives.  I think
as we move more toward more energy efficiency we'll see SSDs used as storage
devices more often.  With SLC drives now capable of up to 1,000,000 rewrites to
each cell the reliability of SSDs is getting closer to that of platter drives. 
Long gone are the days of staged ESDI startup sequences where you can hear each
drive individually start spinning and see the BIOS advise you as to which drive
has reached operational RPMs.....



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