Re: Re-direct write processes in Frescobaldi?

[Joshua Nichols]

The reason I asked was not because I didn't know this, but because an article said "under normal use, SSDs will last longer than the computer themselves." I don't know if constantly saving, writing, and compiling lilypond files with temporary files saved in Frescobaldi would be considered "beyond normal use." I appreciate your explanation of this.

I'm not trying to baby my computer; I'm only trying to be considerate of any limitations there might be for an SSD currently.

--

Josh

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:40 AM, Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Joshua,

Myths about SSD's arise from early days. You have a new computer with presumably a current SSD. Such SSD's can sustain petabyte (that's petabyte) writes before they fail. If you write a terabyte of Frescobaldi data to the disk in a year, which is utterly unreasonable, you can expect to get 1000 years use out of it. The electronics in your computer will fail sometime in that period. :-) There are admittedly other factors relating to hard drive failure, but mechanical drives suffer the same factors.

I wish people would relax about this topic or read the extensive literature on contemporary drive testing,

Here's a five paragraph summary article on this type of testing:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/worried-about-ssd-wear-you-probably-dont-need-to-be/

There also exist many very learned papers on the same topic, showing very high endurance figures for consumer SSD's.

Andrew