Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:55:04 -0400 | From | Vladislav Bolkhovitin <> | Subject | Re: [sqlite] light weight write barriers |
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Theodore Ts'o, on 10/25/2012 09:50 AM wrote: > Yeah.... I don't buy that. One, flash is still too expensive. Two, > the capital costs to build enough Silicon foundries to replace the > current production volume of HDD's is way too expensive for any > company to afford (the cloud providers are buying *huge* numbers of > HDD's) --- and that's assuming companies wouldn't chose to use those > foundries for products with larger margins --- such as, for example, > CPU/GPU chips. :-) And third and finally, if you study the long-term > trends in terms of Data Retention Time (going down), Program and Read > Disturb (going up), and Write Endurance (going down) as a function of > feature size and/or time, you'd be wise to treat flash as nothing more > than short-term cache, and not as a long term stable store. > > If end users completely give up on flash, and store all of their > precious family pictures on flash storage, after a couple of years, > they are likely going to be very disappointed.... > > Speaking personally, I wouldn't want to have anything on flash for > more than a few months at *most* before I made sure I had another copy > saved on spinning rust platters for long-term retention.
Here I agree with you.
Vlad
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