26 Sep
2024
26 Sep
'24
6:35 a.m.
On 9/25/24 5:59 PM, dep via tde-users wrote:
Have ordered Samsung PCIe SSD and the appropriate card
for the X1 slot
on my motherboard. The idea is to run everything that isn't /home from
there. Writes would therefore be relatively few. It's 1tb, so there are
wide open spaces for wear leveling. Should greatly reduce drive-caused
slowness.
Side note:
If you are worried about the SSD as indicated by your "wear leveling" comment,
if you haven't run a SSD before, the concern is now very close to a non-issue.
The MTBF data and drive lifetimes are based on writing 70% of the drive every
24 hours (in your case with a 1TB drive, you would be reading/writing/deleting
700GB every day). If you are replicating large databases all day long, maybe,
but for a normal user - never happens.
The performance increase (and responsiveness feel) are 4X to 5X better than
old spinning drives. (a SSD will even make that old Core2 Duo box in the
bone-pile run TDE blisteringly fast).
I've beaten the tar out of SSDs probably much more than most compiling big
projects almost daily (like building PHP from source, etc..) for years and
never had any issue with wear.
So when I started with SSD I had concerns and was worried they may fail before
the normal 5-10 years I get from good spinning drives. I've now put 5-10 years
of abuse on a dozen SSDs, and today's drives are every bit as robust as the
best rotating kind -- and much better today than when first introduced.
Lesson: throw the SSD in the box and then drive it like you stole it -- you
won't have any problems...
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.