I've read too many recent ars, anand, and Slashdot articles to care about SSD for a while.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531 <http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=17> &p=17 Anadtech appears down atm but that's a great article.. Even the Intel drives are having their own showstopper issues right now. I know there are some controllers that aren't getting the bad press, but with everything else being reported it really makes me wonder if the tech in general is ready. -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers Sometimes, just sometimes, I really hate you guys (he says after 45 minutes of reading SSD info from storagesearch.com...) ...must...have...SSD.... Check out these stats: User Experience with SSDs - How did they feel? People who already used SSDs were asked to rate their experience of the benefits delivered compared to expectations. 65% - said it greatly exceeded expectations (I advocate others to try) 6% - said SSD experience exceeded expectations (I'd use SSDs again) 6% - said SSD experience met expectations (my realistic goals were met) 12% - said regarding their SSD experience they were mildly disappointed (some good results but not as advertised) Nobody (zero percent) was strongly disappointed. That suggest that SSDs are not being mis sold into applications which are unsuitable. (Unlike many server products.) <http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdsurvey.html> http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdsurvey.html And the piece that interested me as much as anything: <http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html> http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Home Servers I've just decided that I need to get current gen SSDs for just about everything I can. I bought an OCZ Vertex (Indilinx controller) last weekend, and this thing is awesome (compared to mechanical disk, and earlier SSDs that I've had). My next mission to upgrade the server to SSDs for all the VMs except the WHS, and start upgrading all my machines. SSDs rock - booting Windows in <15 seconds, and opening Outlook in 2 seconds is just addictive. Cheers Ken ________________________________________ From: Ben Scott [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 2:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home Servers On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > www.adopenstatic.com/temp/homenetwork.jpg You score so much geek cred every time you post that. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
