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

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> 
> 
> 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.

Yeah I agree there's too much nervousness about SSD wear issues. And actually the better/best consumer SSDs can tolerate maybe twice that amount so before going enterprise SSD, even look at a higher quality more expensive consumer SSD.

Chris Murphy