[lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB

[BC]

Good suggestions, Bear.

On the SSD front...  It may be tougher to "burn through" SSD drives 
than we think.  I've got a couple of mirrored, 512GiBSamsung 850 Pro 
SSDs that I try to beat-to-death.  In the last two years I've probably 
R/W hundreds of TiB of data to them. Yesterday, worried that they may 
be nearing EOL, I installed smartmontools for windows and interrogated 
the drives. Both still show 96% remaining life (based on the 
wear-leveling datapoint). If the depletion rate is straight-line, I'll 
be dust before these drives croak.

Did a little additionalreadingabout it and numerous folks who sound 
like gurus were citing data agreeing with my sentiments. Curiously, 
the larger the SSD the longer lived it is likely to be.


On 2/11/2018 11:10 AM, Bear Giles wrote:
> I'm not a Dell salescritter and don't get a commission on this. Just 
> FYI since it might be cheaper to get a new system with a warranty 
> and latest-gen CPU than to get a used server or to burn through SSD 
> drives and weeks of downtime as a database is built.

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