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But SSDs that cost the same as a 15K disk do not have anywhere near the life time of the spinning disk due to write endurance limits. So load half a billion ro
by Andys 14y ago
But SSDs that cost the same as a 15K disk do not have anywhere near the life time of the spinning disk due to write endurance limits.
So load half a billion rows but don't update it too often!
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- fleitz 14y agoGiven the cost of power and space and vs. the number of additional drives necessary I'm not sure that longevity is worth it.
- henrikschroder 14y agoSSDs live long enough. You get magnitudes more IOPS performance out of a single SSD than a RAID of 15k disks, it consumes magnitudes less power, it costs less, and it needs less maintenance. It's a complete no-brainer these days to put an SSD in your database server.