How quickly would a dramless SSD die?

PiKe · 14 Jun 2019 at 18:12

Running several VMs from it, one containing exchange 2016?

Minstadave · 14 Jun 2019 at 18:49

DRAM or not doesn't really effect longevity AFAIK, just performance.

d_brennen · 14 Jun 2019 at 19:14

Minstadave said:
DRAM or not doesn't really effect longevity AFAIK, just performance.

Having a cache does allow the drive to batch writes in a sensible manner depending upon the algorithm, but it's usually more writes /MTBF than the useful life of the device.

I wouldn't be running a production server from one SSD at all though, no matter it's specification.

WJA96 · 19 Jun 2019 at 23:07

All my servers use a SATA-DOM module as the boot disk. Totally sound solution. That’s what they’re for. You don’t want to do anything write-intensive though, as stipulated by Supermicro in the technical documents.