Chris Murphy wrote:
Nowadays you may have SSDs which supposedly last longer when not written
much to but mostly read from, so you might put the partitions that can be read-only on the SSDs and use magnetic disks for things like /var, /tmp, /home and swap.
It's in the realm of 20+GB written per day every day, for the warranty period. If you're doing that, get an enterprise SSD. Or stick with HDDs.
A standard, non-enterprise, consumer SSD will last far longer[1] than anyone thinks. Please put the myths and conspiracy theories that /tmp or /var/tmp or anything on any SSD is "bad" to rest.
[1] http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retenti...