What about arrays of lower cost consumer grade SSD's vs the more expensive "enterprise" drives or cards. The 'I' in RAID can stand for "inexpensive". It can make sense to mirror two cheap drives on non-big data server applications. So the HD form factor for solid state storage is a good thing in this case.
Two 60GB SATAIII drives for $45/ea is really cheap. $60 for 120GB. Wow. PC Blaze Broadband > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof via Af > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 11:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] OT - PCI-E enterprise SSDs > > So I've been impressed lately with the performance improvements to personal > computers and I/O intensive servers like web and mail servers by replacing HDDs with > SSDs. I'm convinced the emphasis on CPU and memory is often misplaced and the > key is disk read/write performance. I think part of this is our use of computers has > gone from computing oriented to data oriented. > Big, big data. The one exception perhaps being games, but is that CPU intensive or > GPU intensive? > > So I've noticed there are enterprise SSD cards that go in a PCI-E slot like Intel S3700, > Huawei ES3000, Samsung SM1715. The performance numbers sound comparable to a > very expensive RAID array of SAS drives. It does raise the question, why are we > making SSDs look like HDDs including form factor and electrical interface, other than > for the hot swap capability of SATA/SAS? > > Has anyone used these things? Are they automatically recognized by Windows and > Linux as disk drives? Do you need to load special drives and jump through special > hoops? Is there any point trying to do RAID with these, and can that even be done?
