On 10/01/12 10:16, Lance Grover wrote: > I have put a mysql server on a Fusion IO Solid State drive and yes it > really speeds things up, however I have not tried a regular SSD that would > connect to a SAS interface but I would believe it would. Fusion IO drives > is basically a PCI card, so it is not limited to the SAS speeds. Also be > aware that regular SSD don't usually write and re-write in an efficient > way, they only have a finite number of writes and if the drive is > constantly written to on one of the specific chips, that chip will die, and > the drive will fail. I doubt any modern SSD doesn't have write-leveling built into the drive firmware, so this is a bit alarmist. Yes, SSDs have limited writes, but they deliberately balance the load across the addresses. This would only be a likely problem to see on a mostly-full drive where you're only re-writing a limited portion of the data.
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