On 16/03/2010 12:54, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> The consumer flash is MLC, so it has about three orders
> of magnitude less write endurance than SLC. Is it safe to
> run monthly or weekly vhashify runs on guests, to reduce
> their footprint on disk (since expensive) and on memory
> (limited)? I'd like to save flash space, but not kill it
> by wearing out by writing to it too much.
>
No idea if it's safe, but the opinions on lifespan seem to vary
massively and very few people seem to have failed flash that they can
talk about... I doubt vhashify causes much write load on a typical
setup either...
However, I can testify to how good these things are! Just bought a
Crucial C300 for my Macbook Pro and does this thing shift or what!
Previously, app opening performance was pretty dismal, eg OOO takes more
time to open than I care to measure and booting Windows in Parallels a
ton of time also - now the same apps open in "a couple of seconds" and
it's quite cool seeing the disk throughput meter maxing out at over
150MB/s... (windows now boots really fast when you run it on a Mac!!)
Have fun!
Ed W
Received on Tue Mar 16 14:48:17 2010