4/28 Anyone here have experience with solid state drives in the server
environment? I am mostly worried about reliability, longevity, and
performance. I've read a couple of articles saying that OSes
really need to be SSD optimized before this can be considered
truly viable and yet every vendor from Dell to Sun to Apple is
shipping these. Are they ready for prime-time on an important
production server?
\_ Theres been a lot fo advances in SSD recently toward load levelling
(to spread the erase cycle wear) an overall endurance. They're
actually a viable (if expensive) option now. Theres been some good
work looking at using them for ZFS logs for zvols involving lots
of slower storage.
If you're looking at using htem now they'll probably be
replaced due to obsolescence before they 'go bad'. -ERic
\_ I'd still be a bit wary of using them for something like a
high write db server, but yeah for user stuff go for it. |