On 14 January 2015 at 11:01, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
On 13/01/2015 3:12 AM, Robin Humble wrote:
(TL;DR - put your email on a SSD)
Not with TB on a client machine.... file fragmentation doesn't last with TB files; it's next to useless trying to do that. What that means in a nutshell is that far too many files get re-written over and over again and that /could/ be too much for SSD, although SSD is far more durable these days -- subjecting it to TB though is probably asking for trouble.
Oh come on, that's FUD. SSDs are way more durable than that! http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking... Those guys have been hammering a bunch of SSDs *continuously* - like a burn-in test - FOR A YEAR AND A BIT SO FAR - and still haven't killed all the drives. As of the last count, they were up to 2 petabytes of writes on the Samsung 840 Pro and it's still going strong. The earliest drive to drop out was an Intel SSD, at 750 TB of writes, (but that's apparently because they're programmed to go into read-only mode at exactly that amount, rather than risk sudden failure or data loss later). My point here being -- even though it's more about number of block writes rather than total data written, you've still got a massive number of writes you can do to an SSD before it "wears out". Working a handful of mail files during the day is NOT going to be a realistic problem. Your drive will last a thousand years. Toby