SSD vs. HDD Performance

[Stephen]

If its mostly read not write it will last a very long time

That is the bigger question on life



On 3/7/10, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:
> I found an article that I believe was done by Ars and they tested a database
> load on several SSD drives and said the reality of the longevity of the SSD
> vs. the HDD was non-existant and the best estimate cases showed an SSD
> actually lasting LONGER than the MTBF of a regular hard drive. So I am not
> convinced that these drives fail so quickly. The first 5 or 6 generations
> did, but I believe the newer systems will last just as long as a HDD under
> all similar loads. I will have to look for that article again and post it.
>
> Nathan
>
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have done some real work on SSD and their performance is great Seek
>> times are non existent, throughput is about as good as the interface
>> gets.
>>
>> but note if you do allot of disk read write they will fail sooner than
>> a regular HDD it is simply a wearing factor of the media.
>>
>> The algorithms and the like built in are very good so you will likely
>> get a decent life from the drive.
>>
>> the only 2 tests i have done on them personally were Web IO and DB IO
>> and they were about 10x as fast as a SATA 2 hdd overall (2 drive
>> mirror on a highpoint 3210)
>>
>> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr3120.htm
>>
>> I find Raid 0 gained me more performance with less money (or raid 10
>> if you want the redundancy) over a single drive.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org>
>> wrote:
>> > I have read a dozen sites discussing various benchmarkings between
>> > myriad
>> > setup of SSD's vs. HDD's. I have not seen any code monkey reviews. Has
>> any
>> > one purchased one of these for use in compiling code, or maybe you're a
>> > gentoo fan???
>> > I compile a ton of stuff everyday and I'm curious if it is worth the
>> money
>> > to try a SSD. I also have several large database systems I would like to
>> > migrate to a SSD, but I have not looked for reviews with databases yet.
>> > Nathan
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