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 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 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 >> 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 >> > -- Sent from my mobile device 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