and this will hurt all the naive people which start buying large mid-range SSD storages and wake up from their dreams the hard way over the long
it will take years until large storages are relieable enough for critical data if you are not a fortune company with endless money
a rotating media will never die silently, a f**ing SD-card in my last phone refused to write any bit on it without any error message, i formatted it with several filesystems, let it completly oveeride with dd (/dev/zero and /dev/urandom) and after put the crap out of the card reader and insert it again the data where the same as 2 weeks ago
the smartphones card-slot died BTW by overheat of the device most likely due this bahvior and did i say that dmesg or /var/log/messages did not contain a single line with a hint of a probelm due writing over hours on the card
from this day on my opinion is that only a idiot stores critical data on this new shiny crap - and yes i know there are large differences between SSD and a SD-card, but that does not change the fact that such a behavior froma rotating media is impossible
Am 05.05.2013 17:29, schrieb dirk.jahnke-zumbusch@desy.de:
I found a reference about the robustness of SSDs (and rotating rust) on c0t0d0s0.org (http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/7578-Switching-off-SSDs-and-the-consequence...) pointing to this interesting paper:
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~zhengm/papers/2013_FAST_PowerFaultSSD.pdf
Just in case you ever wondered what might happen to your SSDs if power fails.
----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- Von: "Stan Hoeppner" stan@hardwarefreak.com An: dovecot@dovecot.org Gesendet: Sonntag, 5. Mai 2013 12:22:05 Betreff: Re: [Dovecot] XFS vs EXT4 for mail storage
On 5/4/2013 10:54 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2013-05-04 11:20 AM, Marc Perkel marc@perkel.com wrote:
For what it's worth if you can afford it I'd use SSD drives. My server screams since I went to SSD.
Hi Marc,
You have no idea how much I would love to use SSDs for this. But the cost was simply not quite justified.
The price keeps coming down on them though - even now, 10 months after buying these servers, the cost would probably be low enough that we may have actually done so, but it was going to be about double the cost of the 15k drives at the time we priced them.
Next time, definitely... :)
The verdict is still out on use of "enterprise" SSDs. They've simply not been in use long enough en mass to know what the common failure modes are and what the real lifespan is. I personally wouldn't yet trust long term storage to them, though I have no problem using them for fast temporary storage for things like a busy mail queue