http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/ssd-its-the-new-new-or-the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-a-fan-itself?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ssd-its-the-new-new-or-the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-a-fan-itself Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/ssd-its-the-new-new-or-the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-a-fan-itself/comment-page-1#comment-17014 Mohd. Hashim Khan Fri, 18 May 2007 16:28:58 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/ssd-its-the-new-new-or-the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-a-fan-itself#comment-17014 yeah was hearing about then since many days, haven't got any such drives in my market. All expect from future technology to make drive as reliable as possible because when i forget to backup I have bad dreams of data loss. Recent SATA II is not as reliable as old SCSI drives which is disapponting. yeah was hearing about then since many days, haven’t got any such drives in my market. All expect from future technology to make drive as reliable as possible because when i forget to backup I have bad dreams of data loss. Recent SATA II is not as reliable as old SCSI drives which is disapponting.

]]> http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/ssd-its-the-new-new-or-the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-a-fan-itself/comment-page-1#comment-2165 abenamer Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:18:53 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/ssd-its-the-new-new-or-the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-a-fan-itself#comment-2165 As the drive gets much bigger, there's that much more space to handle any one RW cycle. There's a good discussion of it here at <a href="http://storagemojo.com/?p=281" rel="nofollow">storagemojo.com</a>. In essence, the larger and larger size of these drives will help protect the user against crashes simply because there's probably no way you can actually write 100,000 times to every sector on a 32 GB drive in any reasonable amount of time. In fact, the article I link to points out that you'd have to be using it at an ungodly pace just to hit a 12 year lifetime. I don't know of too many apps that are doing 1000 8k I/O accesses per second 24 hours a day for 12 years. As the drive gets much bigger, there’s that much more space to handle any one RW cycle. There’s a good discussion of it here at storagemojo.com. In essence, the larger and larger size of these drives will help protect the user against crashes simply because there’s probably no way you can actually write 100,000 times to every sector on a 32 GB drive in any reasonable amount of time. In fact, the article I link to points out that you’d have to be using it at an ungodly pace just to hit a 12 year lifetime. I don’t know of too many apps that are doing 1000 8k I/O accesses per second 24 hours a day for 12 years.

]]> http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/ssd-its-the-new-new-or-the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-a-fan-itself/comment-page-1#comment-2154 paulmorriss Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:25:00 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/ssd-its-the-new-new-or-the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-a-fan-itself#comment-2154 Flash memory typically can only be changed 100,000 times, so eventually drives wear out. Where does this 10 year figure come from? If your swap file is on flash and getting hammered will it last 10 years. (Ironically the swapfile would then be memory pretending to be a hard drive pretending to be memory.) Flash memory typically can only be changed 100,000 times, so eventually drives wear out. Where does this 10 year figure come from? If your swap file is on flash and getting hammered will it last 10 years. (Ironically the swapfile would then be memory pretending to be a hard drive pretending to be memory.)

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