Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, "Why?")

[Michael Cronenworth]

Chris Murphy wrote:
>> Nowadays you may have SSDs which supposedly last longer when not written
>> >much to but mostly read from, so you might put the partitions that can
>> >be read-only on the SSDs and use magnetic disks for things like /var,
>> >/tmp, /home and swap.
> It's in the realm of 20+GB written per day every day, for the warranty period. If you're doing that, get an enterprise SSD. Or stick with HDDs.
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A standard, non-enterprise, consumer SSD will last far longer[1] than anyone 
thinks. Please put the myths and conspiracy theories that /tmp or /var/tmp or 
anything on any SSD is "bad" to rest.

[1] 
http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retention-after-600tb