[Tfug] Small-ish (capacity + size) disk alternatives

[Zack Williams]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> SSD's would probably fail in short order due to the
> inherent media life limitations (the read-write uses for
> the disk involve lots of update cycles).

Most SSD's publish the number of writes before they'd fail.  As you
have the system running, you can probably figure out your daily amount
of data being read/written to the disk, and then extrapolate how long
an SSD would theoretically last.  Also, the larger the SSD, the larger
the "spare" area, so they tend to last longer.

You can also buy enterprise class SSD's that have longer write
endurance, but they tend to be much more expensive.

- Zack