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A comment on SATA HyperDrive5 RAM Drive.

Re:SATA HyperDrive5 RAM Drive by powertower on Thursday September 03, 2015 @05:32PM (#10167649)
The only thing this has over an SSD drive is that there is virtually no wear-out. Though I'm not sure if there is a practical workload that would take advantage of this, considering SSDs should be able to handle constant I/O for several years before they die.

Is there any other benefit to purchase a HyperDrive over an SSD?

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Re:SATA HyperDrive5 RAM Drive by mschuster91 on Thursday September 03, 2015 @05:48PM (#10167721)
> Is there any other benefit to purchase a HyperDrive over an SSD?

Yep, a SSD will fragment sooner or later, the HyperDrive (or any RAM based drive for that matter) is time-guaranteed latency.

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Re:SATA HyperDrive5 RAM Drive by rasz_pl on Thursday September 03, 2015 @08:16PM (#10168208)
try several months, unless you go with SLC SSDs
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