Reply to post: Re: "SSDs fail at an alarming rate in space"

HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days

JLV

Re: "SSDs fail at an alarming rate in space"

>I don't even have time to light a cigarette.

Yeah, but with all the anti-smoking regs nowadays, a cig is quite the production (cf the IT Crowd. No, I'm not a smoker, but the hoops nowadays...)

I wonder if SSD wear isn't partly accelerated by constant swap writes eating up their write cycle allowances. Updated my laptop from 8 to 16 GB RAM for just that reason after my Samsung 850 died without warning after 2 years. Also made a very small (200MB) Ram disk to write transient files like test logs, faster too.

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