A closer look at fresh versus used SSD performance

Thinking about moving to SSD?  Might want to give this a read.

The block rewrite penalty inherent to flash memory has interesting performance implications for SSDs. As we've discovered, some SSD controllers cope much better than others when facing well-used drives.

I'm still on the fence, the SSD stuff is pretty cool but not so much mainstream yet.

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