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> SSD firmware needs to do clever things with caching and write combining to avoid premature wear. This has not been an issue for several years now. SSDs last
by Devilboy 16y ago
> SSD firmware needs to do clever things with caching and write combining to avoid premature wear.
This has not been an issue for several years now. SSDs last at least as long as spinning platter disks. Especially the server-grade SSDs from the big brands. I've never heard of anyone running into this SSD wear-leveling issues in a production environment.
- barrkel 16y agoUnless I'm mistaken, you've completely missed the point of what I wrote. The reason wear leveling is not an issue is because the firmware is smart enough to avoid the problem, and those smarts interfere with the presumed model used by simplistic artificial benchmarks.
- Devilboy 16y agoSorry you are correct. I misunderstood. I don't think the wear leveling will affect the benchmarks that much though - even if it's horribly inefficient your drives will still beat the snot out of any spinning platter drive on the market today.
- barrkel 16y agoI fully agree, in competition with a mechanical drive, but it's an important consideration when looking at which SSD to buy.