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Interesting thoughts on SSDs. I was under the impression that it wasn't so much the speed improvements they provide as the _power_savings_ that made SSDs useful
by Damogran6 9y ago
Interesting thoughts on SSDs. I was under the impression that it wasn't so much the speed improvements they provide as the _power_savings_ that made SSDs useful in a Data Center environment. It was a single piece of anecdotal evidence, but the payoff due to power savings was roughly 8 months.
- yellowapple 9y agoIt depends on the use case. IO-heavy workloads (like databases) benefit from the better performance (relative to traditional hard disks), though ramdisks would give even more performance gains (so long as your data - or the most actively used subset thereof - fits in RAM). Another factor is the form factor (pun intended; I'll be here all week). SSDs can get a lot smaller than traditional hard drives, which opens up the floodgates for tiny servers (blades, single-board machines, etc.) as well as for increasingly-dense solid-state SANs. But yes, power savings are yet another huge benefit - and one which is still such even as a side effect of going with SSDs for a different reason (like physical space or needing high-speed disk access).