New solid state drives???!!!

[CKDC]

Great New! We are moving to a new server with solid state drives and a much faster processor. Expect the site to go offline sometime this weekend, while we transfer the database.


What!!!???

Solid state!!!???

Not tubes???

 

[ooba tooba]

Too hot to run in the summer?

 

[whoaru99]

Considering the I've read the ENIAC processing was roughly equivalent to what would be 100kHz clock speed, not sure we'd really want that anyway.

 

[CKDC]

How about a hybrid:

Tubes for the ones, solid state for the zeros.

 

[Mystic]

Huzzah! And mazel tov @ the server migration!

 

[theophile]

Solid state drive will be a big leap ahead of the current Donkey State Drive:

 

[Mutemike]

How about a hybrid:

Tubes for the ones, solid state for the zeros.

So you're saying we should bi- amp?

Regards,
Michael

 

[petehall347]

i am getting ssd for the operating system when the prices drop some more ..

 

[quaddriver]

Im sure it was followed=up on, but the reason we dont use SSD's in the real enterprise world is the limited write MTBF's as opposed to spinners. And Im sure it does not matter here with only a few accesses per second at best, but we tend to stay away from the larger SATA drives due to speed.

Just saying, if you are using SSDs, make sure you are using commit/rollback protocol and perhaps a remote site real time backup (replication)

 

[KentTeffeteller]

To amplify this point, what is the ideal size for spinners before speed becomes a factor? quaddriver, please amplify this point for lay users.

 

[quaddriver]

In a large enterprise, we have found that under 500gb drives in your raid configuration of choice is best for thruput. now mind you, this is oft mounted to mainframes where we have at least 4, preferably 8 paths to each HDA to keep it busy....

 

[pdm4606]

What could possibly go wrong???

 

[Bassblaster]

What could possibly go wrong???