SSDs

[Ben Walton]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> One would think it would. You might need to be careful of how it is used. I
> don't know how they hold up these days in applications where the SSD sees a
> lot of write cycles.

http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SSDsAndBottlenecks

It likely depends on what other resources the machine has and what
you're doing on that volume.  In a laptop, I think it would definitely
be a win but in other cases, it may be marginal and limited to startup
where things are cached initially.

HTH.
-Ben
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