Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : Spectre
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Mar 31 2022 22:21:00

-=> Spectre wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> I think you are confusing SSD and SD (card).  There are no real
 Ga> limits/restrictions/worries about reads/writes to a modern SSD.

 Sp> Not so sure about that, like any memory device, it'll have some
 Sp> limit on writes. In some ways SSD's suit blocks of monolithic
 Sp> data better than they do an active system.

Yes, that's all true, no argument.  But, the limit is likely measured
in years of normal use, like at least 10-12.  Usually by then you'd 
probably want to be replacing a drive anyway, or the entire computer
would be retired/upgraded.

 Sp> Although you can mitigate the problem by ensuring all blocks
 Sp> across the medium are written to it doesn't make the problem go
 Sp> away, and having things like logs or other "trivial" high
 Sp> turnover items on spinning rust if you need permanency or RAM
 Sp> disk if you don't care still makes some sense...

Agreed, and there are other measures one can take too, like 'noatime'
in /etc/fstab (at least on Linux, don't know about Winders), and
periodically running 'fstrim', and so on.



.... Toto, I don't think we're in DOS any more...
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