[rsyslog] [OT] Re: reliability of SSD disks?

[Mr. Demeanour]

Aaron Wiebe wrote:
> SSD's are as reliable, if not more reliable, than your regular
> spinning rust.
> 
> But if you want to get even more speed, and just as much reliability,
>  check out fusionio.com.  They're launching a consumer market PCIe
> card at 80GB this year (at $800 a card).  The technology is -very-
> cool though, I got a presentation about it this week (and met the
> woz!).

So the website (http://www.fusionio.com) doesn't seem to offer any
information on the number of write cycles these devices are able to
sustain. Since they are NAND Flash, this would be expected to be up to
about a million, rendering them of dubious value as a part of a logging
system. With wear-levelling, once cells start dying, I'd expect the
death-rate to climb very rapidly indeed.

I would have thought that DRAM-based devices would be more suitable in
this role.

-- 
Jack.