On 12/03/2014 10:11 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> If you're using any kind of modern SSD device, this is really no longer
> much of an issue.  Between write leveling software, new architectures
> such as Samsung's 3D VNAND, and general improvements, it's really
> unlikely that you can actually exceed the write life of a decent-size
> SSD device in any realistic period of time.  I am advised Samsung has a
> 250GB 950 Pro SSD in their test labs to which they have written over 8
> petabytes of data (yes, I said PETAbytes) and it is still going strong.
>  Several independent test labs have test SSDs to which they have been
> continually writing data at the maximum transfer rate of the device for
> over a year without experiencing a failure.

Right but note there's a couple of keywords there:

"decent-size SSD device" -- don't make a 2.5TB spool partition because
there'll be no write leveling.

I think 32K write cycles is roughly a century of nightly writes so yeah,
that should be good enough. ;)
-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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