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@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@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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