Just curious as to what your thoughts are on SSD's and web servers... Not seen too much on them when it comes to server performance... With prices on SSDs dropping I wonder if it would be worth doing a 4-way RAID 5 versus doing some 10,000 RPM SATA drives...
The low access times would be great... the only problem with the cheaper priced SSD's is the issue with random write performance, but I wonder how many random writes are done for a web server.
SSD's For Web Servers
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Re: SSD's For Web Servers
really for web server/databases you'd only want to use SLC rather than MLC - well that's how the theory goes
I wonder what SUN are doing with tweaking their SSD offerings for mysql ??
why comapred to 10k SATA and not 15k SAS/SCSI ? :D
I wonder what SUN are doing with tweaking their SSD offerings for mysql ??
why comapred to 10k SATA and not 15k SAS/SCSI ? :D
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building another server to add to the ones we run and was wondering if SSD's would be an option for the site.
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Nate I work in a Data Center, and we get paid if we achieve a certain uptime on the servers. You do not want any commerical SSDs in your boxes they'd fail in a couple months, even if they were SLC. And non-commerical would be way way too expensiveApoptosis wrote:building another server to add to the ones we run and was wondering if SSD's would be an option for the site.
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If you are really die hard about doing it, i would say the DB server, if there is a SQL standalone server with a front end web server. The web server needs more proc and memory horsepower, where as the DB needs more from the drives. /2cents
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in that case sas/scsi is the way to go if you value peace of mindApoptosis wrote:building another server to add to the ones we run and was wondering if SSD's would be an option for the site.