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Old 27th Jun 2012, 14:16
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peterh337
 
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They even have the SSD drives you want as options, though personally I'd stay away from those. I don't believe the technology has advanced far enough for SSDs to be reliable enough yet in a business server envorinment
Interestingly I've had a zero success rate with SSDs lasting more than their warranty in desktop machines (which is fortunate, depending on how you look at it ) but that was under winXP which is constantly thrashing the registry (a write per second, constantly, according to some tests I did). SSDs work great on laptops, even under XP, presumably because the OS has been stopped from doing that for obvious HD power management reasons.

This was with Intel and Crucial SSDs.

But when they work they are great, and run very cool.

We did this here a while ago. The wear-evening algorithms which SSDs are supposed to run (without any OS co-operation i.e. no TRIM command support from the OS) should spread the wear but this merely translates to a maximum amount of data which can be written to the SSD before every flash block has reached its write limit (~10k writes). With a say 130GB SSD the figure, for Intel ones, is of the order of 40TB of data, which is not as much as one might think. One could reach it in a year or two in a desktop PC doing a lot of stuff.

Why don't you just try it out?

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Not if the vendor offers no warranty that it will run an "unsupported OS".
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