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On 18/3/20 7:25 am, james wrote: |
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> On 3/17/20 10:14 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:59 AM <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote: |
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>> Finally, ALL DRIVES FAIL. It doesn't matter what the underlying |
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>> storage technology is. I've seen hard drives fail in less than a |
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I gave up trying to do fancy write minimization strategies for SSD's a |
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long time ago as they usually had a performance penalty and I am using |
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SSD's for their considerable speedup - I currently have about 5 SSD's |
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and in addition you can add laptop nvme, m2.nvme etc to the list as |
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well. I run normally - that is swap and compiling caches etc on the SSD. |
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Over that last few years I have had one SSD fail (and 3-4 spinning |
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rust!) - the SSD failure was a random event (it was a "good" intel one) |
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as it just died out of the blue. It was being used as a bcache cacheing |
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drive at the time, and one of the 4 HDD's in the system failed around |
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the same time so I suspect and external event rather than internal to |
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the SSD. |
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The OS drives with swap and compiling have not caused any problems - one |
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early generation 60GB spent its first 18months as a ceph node (really |
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hammers the drive) and its still the main OS drive on my desktop. |
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My comment is that these days, SSD's are not a concern or warrant |
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special treatment and that an SSD failure is likely to be sudden and |
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catastrophic unlike a normal HDD which usually degrades and gives |
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warning signs of impending doom :) |
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