MLC is the TLA you're looking for. Multi Level Cell SSDs provide higher density at a lower cost. SLC provide fast performance and endurance, but at a higher cost. I like the comparison covered in the following paper.
http://www.supertalent.com/datasheets/SLC_vs_MLC%20whitepaper.pdf - Sean On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Benjamin Zachary <[email protected]> wrote: > Check that the kind of SSD, there is MFC and SLC I think are the acronyms, > one is single layer or multi layer. The single layer are much faster and > more reliable. They don’t really announce if they are single or multi, you > have to do a little digging … **** > > ** ** > > We just did a nice Nexenta SAN with 8x2TB drives, and 4 80GB SSD for > logging and write caching, it made a huge difference when we realized we > had MFC and changed them to SLC drives.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Mark Boeck [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:46 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: SSD for lab Hyper-V server**** > > ** ** > > Enjoy the HD speed. Depending on the age of the PE, you'll be running > slower than expected from a CPU / memory point of view.**** > > **** > > Perhaps take the SSD and put it in a newer home PC and enjoy the boot and > operational speed there...**** > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:28 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > I just bought a used PowerEdge 840 Xeon server so I can have a 2008 R2 > Hyper-V box (the free server core kind) at my home lab. It came with two > 40GB SATA drives. Any reason I shouldn’t use a single 40GB SSD drive for > the OS and regular (and much bigger) SATA drives? Would the SSD speed be > kind of wasted on server core?**** > > *David Lum* > Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 //* *Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764**** > > **** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ** ** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
