I attended a presentation last week on SSD for high utilization servers, and it was quite impressive. They had me convinced SSD technology has a come along way; MLC technology and the amount of redundant storage built into the 'good' SDD add-ons makes them last quite longer than before. The presented a SSD card for servers that handles an INSANE amount of RW activity that will last about 7-10 years. Doing a little research on SSD afterwards made my quite aware that there is an unfair stigma still floating around due to past issues with SSDs; but it seems those issues have been addressed.
It seems most good cards now have lifespan alerting built into them too, so it's not like they just die; they warn you far ahead of time. And even if they do die, they just turn read only and the loss of data is near impossible. I would love to get one in my workstation; curious about the comparison to the 15K RPM boot drive I have in there :) -Sam From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 4:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Fair enough. However it seems that any modern SSD has enough redundancy plus resiliency to survive tens of years of consumer use. Cheers Ken From: Rene de Haas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 28 March 2011 5:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs True, I imagine they are trying to make it last longer by not writing to it so much. On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: Why? I'd put as much stuff onto the SSD as you can - the performance difference between an SSD and a mechanical drive is simply unbelievable. Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 25 March 2011 9:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs And, I would make it only for the OS, moving the user profile(s) and any applications to a standard drive. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Steve Burkett <[email protected]> wrote: Whatever ya do, make sure you get the latest model available of the drive if you can, as they're coming on leaps and bounds with the read and write performances of these things with each new controller. For instance the original OCZ Vertex drives could do 230MB/s read & 135MB/s writes, the Vertex 2 model for the same price can do 285MB/s read & 275MB/s writes, and the Vertex 3 drive that's just been released with the latest Sandforce controller can now do up to 500MB/s read and 500MB/s writes. From: Ames Matthew B (REST) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 25 March 2011 10:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I have ordered an SSD (I was greedy and went for the 128GB - thing future proofing!) for my slightly aging machine. My plan was to install the OS + Apps onto. I would then retain my current 750GB disk for data, temp, profiles, pagefiles, etc. This I should get fast boot/app load but not kill the SSD. As I run a few VMs I figured the vmdk files could reside on the SSD, and the pagefiles for them to be pointed to a mechanical disk. ~ 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
