RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SSD vs HDD

2011-03-04 Thread John Dobbin
We used a ramdisk with software called ramdisk plus. -Original Message- From: Stephan Chayer [mailto:scha...@intrasoft.net] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 9:42 AM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] SSD vs HDD Hello Everyone, I think the question may have been

re: [Declude.JunkMail] SSD vs HDD

2011-03-04 Thread Nick Hayer
Dunno what you are using for a controller but if you couple these drives as a controller cache with an adaptec 5805 for example the system will be wicked fast almost regardless of the hdd drives used - as long as they are enterprise class.. -Nick MadRiverAccess.com|Skywaves.com Tech Support

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SSD vs HDD

2011-03-04 Thread Pete McNeil
On 3/4/2011 10:42 AM, Stephan Chayer wrote: Should we use SSD drives or regular HDD. I have heard numerous reliability problems with SSD and I am not sure if we should do it. So far we have had good luck with SSD drives in applications like this. Another solution we use on our *nix boxen is

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] SSD vs HDD

2011-03-04 Thread Stephan Chayer
Thanks Nick, We are using an Intel hardware raid controller SRCS16 with 64 Mo cache. Stephan De : Nick Hayer [mailto:n...@madriveraccess.com] Envoyé : 4 mars, 2011 11:57 À : Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Objet : re: [Declude.JunkMail] SSD vs HDD Dunno what you are using for a controller

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SSD vs HDD

2011-03-04 Thread Sanford Whiteman
I'd second the RAM disk recommendation. You don't need to pay for enterprise-class RAM disk anymore, as the feature is built into Starwind Software's StarPort iSCSI initiator, which is free. We've used it for 2+ years now. -- Sandy --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list.