Re:Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad
by ahupp on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:36PM
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In a lot of these systems (at least VMWare back when I used that, and Docker) you can clone an existing image with copy-on-write. This is a lot faster and would avoid 20GB of writes to spin up a new VM.
Re:Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad
by pixl97 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:04PM
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Eh, still that is not that much data. I've had much longer life out of SSDs that are used as cache drives and perform a huge amount of writes per day, with Intel and Samsung drives that is.
If you're losing drives that fast check your thermal management instead. Don't run your drives hot.
I forgot to mention I do a lot of heavy writes to it. It is common to see me creating a huge 20GB virtual machine disk image, using it for a few hours, then deleting it, before creating a new one in its place. I'm a huge virtualization freak.