Re:What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives
by rsync on Saturday October 08, 2016 @03:37PM
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Funny how ~18 years later I still have compact flash devices plugged into IDE ports that have never failed. In fact, across a broad spectrum of applications and installs, I have never seen a working CF device fail in the field.
SSDs on the other hand ...
I use SSDs for caching (ZFS read cache and mirrored SLOGs) and I use them for mirrored boot devices in modern, production systems that should have a fast OS device.
But if I want a system to run forever ... if I am optimizing for longevity ... I use compact flash, even in 2016.
(yes, of course I set them to be read-only and disable swap)
SSDs on the other hand ...
I use SSDs for caching (ZFS read cache and mirrored SLOGs) and I use them for mirrored boot devices in modern, production systems that should have a fast OS device.
But if I want a system to run forever ... if I am optimizing for longevity ... I use compact flash, even in 2016.
(yes, of course I set them to be read-only and disable swap)