On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Here's an interesting story about how cheap SSD has gotten and the > implications of that on web applications: > > > http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/12/10/switch-your-databases-to-flash-storage-now-or-youre-doing-it.html > > Key takeaways: > > 1) With SSD for your DB, your DB server's bottleneck is the Network Driver, > not read/write speed. You can actually saturate a NIC with traffic it's so > fast. > My only concern with using SSD for something like production database servers is reliability. Knowing the technology for SSD is being developed rapidly and use either NAND or SDRAM. Unless they've overcome the progressive degradation of that technology in a spectacular way, the constant transaction activity of a database server is going to mean the drives will reach their read/write capacity sooner than traditional magnetic drives. Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360074 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
