[lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB

[Bear Giles]

That makes sense - the larger drives are going to be using newer chips and
probably better chips overall since he people who buy the bigger drives are
going to put a higher premium on reliability than the people who are just
looking for the cheapest price.


On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:22 AM, BC <bcarr at purgatoire.org> wrote:

>
> 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, 512GiB Samsung 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 additional reading about 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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