October 5, 201213 yr From my poking around most small drives are IDE, havent found an inexpensive <100GB SATA drive. In another thread I had brought up the possibility of running plugins off a secondary flash drive. Has this been attempted? Using a flash drive wouldn't be a good idea, apps like sab write A LOT and would kill the flash drive quickly. Like I said, find a PC repair shop, they usually have them pretty cheap because they aren't very much use anymore. I used an old 80GB out of a laptop as my cache drive before I switched it out for a larger cache drive. Only reason I switched was because I had a larger drive laying around, decided I'd rather have a smaller HDD not doing anything than a larger one. I've been running SAB and SICK on my SSD drive for almost a year and haven't had a problem at all. It is an Intel SSD drive. I run the Intel optimizer on it frequently which also shows you the life expectancy of the drive and it still says %100. What that optimizer does and if that life expectancy is accurate or not, who knows but when that machine unrar's files it takes seconds rather then many minutes. Have SSD drives been around that long to say they aren't good for many writes/reads?
October 5, 201213 yr From my poking around most small drives are IDE, havent found an inexpensive <100GB SATA drive. In another thread I had brought up the possibility of running plugins off a secondary flash drive. Has this been attempted? Using a flash drive wouldn't be a good idea, apps like sab write A LOT and would kill the flash drive quickly. Like I said, find a PC repair shop, they usually have them pretty cheap because they aren't very much use anymore. I used an old 80GB out of a laptop as my cache drive before I switched it out for a larger cache drive. Only reason I switched was because I had a larger drive laying around, decided I'd rather have a smaller HDD not doing anything than a larger one. I've been running SAB and SICK on my SSD drive for almost a year and haven't had a problem at all. It is an Intel SSD drive. I run the Intel optimizer on it frequently which also shows you the life expectancy of the drive and it still says %100. What that optimizer does and if that life expectancy is accurate or not, who knows but when that machine unrar's files it takes seconds rather then many minutes. Have SSD drives been around that long to say they aren't good for many writes/reads? He is not talking about an SSD. Think unRAID boot flash drive.
October 5, 201213 yr SSDs will eventually lose performance over time, at what rate will depend on the use of the drive. I think johnm has commented on this. When I said flash drive I was speaking of USB thumb drives, not SSDs. Flash drives have much less space so they degrade faster, amongst other reasons. Plus the op wanted a cheap option, which while lower priced, SSD drives are not a "cheap" option yet,
October 6, 201213 yr SSDs will eventually lose performance over time, at what rate will depend on the use of the drive. I think johnm has commented on this. When I said flash drive I was speaking of USB thumb drives, not SSDs. Flash drives have much less space so they degrade faster, amongst other reasons. Plus the op wanted a cheap option, which while lower priced, SSD drives are not a "cheap" option yet, SSD drives lose performance over time? Has this been confirmed? Intel has 5 year full warranty on their SSD drives. If they degrade over time I guess a lot of people will use that warranty for a replacement.
October 6, 201213 yr Its flash based...of course it will lose performance over time... That being said, poor choice of words. Or lack there of. I was speaking of the lack of trim support in unraid. I know that firmware level trim support is "in" which reduces the issue. Anyway, was posting from my phone, didn't feel like typing a lot so it was a half-assed statement.
October 7, 201213 yr Its flash based...of course it will lose performance over time... That being said, poor choice of words. Or lack there of. I was speaking of the lack of trim support in unraid. I know that firmware level trim support is "in" which reduces the issue. Anyway, was posting from my phone, didn't feel like typing a lot so it was a half-assed statement. No it makes sense. I forgot about that Trim. Windows has a way to deal with it, but Linux does not as of now. I can see a Linux based SSD drive not lasting as long as a Windows one. My scheduler actually "optimizes" the drive, which is the Trim function. Thanks.
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