GARTHWILSON wrote:
djangojames wrote:
What is the MTTF for an SSD? It was about four years old...
I've seen a lot of first-hand reports on the forums of SSDs not lasting very long. I'm not ready to depend on one until the durability is improved. For now, we do have quite a system of daily automatic backups here at home (to mechanical hard discs), thanks to our son's server in the garage. It also has its own backups. It's just better to not need to go through the process of restoring everything though.
My oldest SSD is, I think, pushing 6 years old. It's my work machine. I run databases, do source code builds, other generic data processing on it.
Only failure I've heard of here at the office was the one in the laptop of a guy in our analytics group, and he was constantly reloading very large databases.
Most of our main production filers are now SSD as well. We have TBs of the things.
I back up to a regular hard drive (Mac OS Time Machine), but that's more simply because $$/byte is better than SSD, and performance is secondary. I would like to get rid of it, though, simply because the machine does a hard stall when the drive spins up.
At home I have 2 SSD in my machine, plus a hard drive backup. My wife's laptop is SSD, and she backs up to an SSD. Form factor wins there. It's basically a thick credit card that she plugs in every couple weeks.
Modern SSDs with modern OSes are much better at spreading the load out on the devices, giving them great working life.
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Because images are spatially coherent, a special value for offset of "0" is used to indicate a match on the scanline directly above. In the initial version of the decompressor, matches are not allowed to go over a scanline. This severely degrades the performance- I can improve this later if I find that I am running out of memory to fit all the images in.