Re: [PLUG] swappiness and ssd

[Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Rich Mingin (PLUG) <plug@frags.us> wrote:
> Oh no, see SMART is like FOSS, *everyone* has a standard.... Just hard to
> find two using the same one. :/
>
> With SSDs particularly, the OEMs took the existing HDD semi-standard SMART
> data and just tacked on OEM-specific fields left right and center until they
> had all the telemetry they wanted. Given another 3-5 years, or 5-10 years if
> you're a pessimist, they'll all converge down to a semi-standard like HDDs
> did.
>

And if we're lucky they'll also have figured out TRIM too.

--
Rich
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