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SSDs in server farms are the way to go anyway.
by devy 15y ago
SSDs in server farms are the way to go anyway.
- signa11 15y agothe price-points for the two are way off the scale e.g. on newegg, a 120gb ssd is expensive than 1tb 7200rpm sata..
- jolan 15y agoBut you get tens of thousands IOPS instead of hundreds
- nknight 15y agoWhich may be important, or may be utterly worthless. It's like "total cost of ownership" FUD, numbers are useless outside their original context, and everybody has a different context.
- misterbwong 15y agoThis. For many high perf applications, anything outside of RAM (yes, even with SSD's) is a no-no.
- DEinspanjer 15y agoWow.. really? Is this a trend with any documentation? Seems to me that there are still a lot of mentions of SSD failures floating around the tubes, and that plus the significant cost for large scale storage over traditional platters would make it a very tough sell to any organization wanting to deploy large quantities of servers.
- boredguy8 15y agoMechanical disk supply chains are increasing platter drive costs significantly while at the same time improvements in reliability and cost for SSDs are bringing costs lower. And yes, there have been large deployments: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218811/EBay_attacks_server_virtualization_with_100TB_of_SSD_storage http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218811/EBay_attacks_...