testing SSD performance

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Christoph P.U. Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org>
wrote:

> I was running an older FreeBSD (9.2) for quite a while now with the root
> FS (and swap) an an SSD drive (100GB).
>
> While upgrading the system to 11.0 and while observing quit elong
> buildworld times I'm wondering myself if my SSD possibly might have gotten
> degraded
>  some extent. I've read that SSD tend to run slow on writes over time,
> especially when no provisions were taken to e.g. fill them up just up to
> 2/3 of their max capacity to leave room for firmware storage management.
>

Not really at least with decent+ hardware.
http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

-- 
Adam