SAS is just a bus - you can have an SSD drive that has a SAS connector, and is connected to a SAS backplane...
Cheers Ken From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2011 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I'm of the mindset that SCSI/SAS is becoming superfluous - as soon as $/Gb for good SSD is less than $/Gb of SAS then what do you need SAS for? There is probably some big DB / multiple concurrent user area where SAS will be better I'm guessing though. Thoughts? Dave From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 6:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs Someone opens Windows Media Player / iTunes / Media Monkey. If your music library is on your SSD, then populating the list of albums and cover art is near instantaneous. Opening the "Recent Item" in Windows 7 (or the Start menu in previous versions) is instantaneous Search in Outlook is instantaneous (as is Windows search) There are many benefits to just putting everything except the most bulky storage onto an SSD. I even put my testing VMs on SSDs now (if I can) Cheers Ken From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 28 March 2011 8:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: SSDs and cool PCs I would suspect that those of us on this list aren't the standard consumer. We tend to fall into two types, those who become Luddites at home, and those who manage sophisticated infrastructures at home. I think significant time savings can be gained by having the OS on SSD, the other stuff doesn't seem to need the same level of speed, but I could be talking out of my hat. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Fair enough. However it seems that any modern SSD has enough redundancy plus resiliency to survive tens of years of consumer use... Cheers Ken ~ 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
