[ale] Value SSDs - price/perf

[thehead at patshead.com (Pat Regan)]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:50:49 -0500
Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've read nothing to imply these value line SSDs are something I'd put
> in a server
> Too unreliable, and SSDs can only have so many write cycles in their
> entire life, but you say your transaction rate is low, so that may not
> matter.
> 

The X25-M is supposed to be good for 8GB of writes per day for either 3
or 5 years.

I'm up to almost 3TB of writes according to smartctl.  I'm pretty sure
that is well under 10% of the projected life of the drive.

Pat