Re: Using SSD's..

[Evgueni Tzvetanov <attroppa%yahoo.com@localhost>]

--- On Mon, 9/6/10, Marcel van Dorp [Maeslant Engineering] 
<marcel%maeslant-engineering.nl@localhost> wrote:

> From: Marcel van Dorp [Maeslant Engineering] 
> <marcel%maeslant-engineering.nl@localhost>
> Subject: Using SSD's..
> To: port-cobalt%netbsd.org@localhost
> Date: Monday, September 6, 2010, 4:48 PM
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Back on the list after quite some time of absence..
> 
> Dusted off the two current raq2+ that I've already had
> lying around here
> and even got my hands on a few additional ones making a
> total of six..
> :)
> 
> Got a few like these (
> http://ontech123.com/mediac/400_0/media/SSD-DOM40-cable-2.jpg
> ) in 4GB,
> not exactly those but the same concept. It's a perfect fit
> for the raq's
> and not that expensive. Should give enough room for a basic
> install as
> NTP server and hosting DNS zones.
> 
> Anyway, I was wondering of anyone here over used SSD of any
> form in the
> raq2 platform?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marcel
> 
> 

I used to work with these for a while. At the time they were called DOM 
(DiskOnModule) and then the SSD came out ans the term changed.

They last about 2 years and then you will start losing bits here tand there. 
The read/write cycles may reach the limit pretty quickly if you have intense 
operations like swap or frequent read/write on certain files.

I would use it just as a boot partition with all tools and utilities on it. 
This way it may last longer.

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