Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:22:22 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy? Message-ID: <42198.1324333342@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:16:17 GMT." <20111219221617.GA70383@freebsd.org>
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In message <20111219221617.GA70383@freebsd.org>, Alexander Best writes: >ps: the hdd only gets mounted read-only! There is no known wear-effects in flash storage as long as you only read. You may need to do refresh-writes every 5-10 years to avoid tunnel-leakage bit errors, but most flash controllers use semi-long ECC syndromes and will do so on first bit that gives an read error. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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