solid state drives?

[Peter A. Giessel]

> On Aug 22, 2014, at 8:01, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:36:29 -0500
> William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> 
>> None of the SSD's are/will be as durable as spinning drives for
>> writes .... That said, the SLC type are more durable than MLC or
>> TLC .... Also more $$$$ & usually only available in smaller sizes.
>> Good for a root drive, i.e. mostly read-olny operations. Swap &
>> everything else on spinning platters ....
> 
> A typical modern 120GB MLC SSD will have a specified write endurance of
> around 8TB which is equivalent to  1GB a day for 22 years. They should
> be fine for most things where there's nothing doing heavy duty writing.
> 

This sounds about right.  I've burned out (3) SSD drives in the last year, but I'm pushing around 400-800 MB/s sustained random read/write 24/7 (about 40GB/day) on a PCIe SSD drive.