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 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss