On Jun 25, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Greg Smith wrote:
A firewire-attached log device is an extremely bad idea.
Anyone have experience with IDE, SATA, or SAS-connected flash
devices like the Samsung MCBQE32G5MPP-0VA? I mean, it seems lovely -
32GB, at a transfer rate of 100MB/s, and doesn't degrade much in
performance when writing small random blocks. But what's it actually
like, and is it reliable?
None of these manufacturers rates these drives for massive amounts of
writes. They're sold as suitable for laptop/desktop use, which
normally is not a heavy wear and tear operation like a DB. Once they
claim suitability for this purpose, be sure that I and a lot of others
will dive into it to see how well it really works. Until then, it
will just be an expensive brick-making experiment, I'm sure.
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