On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 16:41 +0100, Shawn Heisey wrote: > If you put the index on SSD, you could get by with less RAM, but a RAID > solution that works properly with SSD (TRIM support) is hard to find, so > SSD failure in most situations effectively means a server failure. Solr > and Lucene have a track record of shredding SSD into failure, because > typically there is a LOT of writing involved.
Why would TRIM have any influence on whether or not a driver failure also means server failure? If the track record you are referring to involves the problems that the Jenkins server for Lucene development had, I know of two failed drives from that setup and they were both OCZ. No surprise here, it pays to examine the reliability of the different models before buying. My current rule is to avoid OCZ like the plague and go for a Samsung 840 or an Intel drive. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html - Toke Eskildsen, State and University Library, Denmark
