Might also want to check the Tom's Hardware site for this week's review of the new Intel 710 offering.
Kurt On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 19:20, Sean Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ~ 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
