On 17/12/2007, Rainer Duffner <rainer_at_ultra-secure.de> wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > > I'm interested in how SSD could help me (if they actually can) with > > large-ish systems running web servers with associated software (e.g. > > database) and office-like servers. So far, I'm having trouble > > envisioning a seek-intensive storage application that's also temporary > > (to avoid keeping the "real" data on flash drives). Maybe a mail server > > queue, with mailboxes on standard drives? > > > > Yep. > Although, I don't know if the "cheap" SSDs mentioned can compete with > the SD-RAM backed "super SSDs". > Because, in the mail-server scenario (also: clamav-box, spamassassin > etc.), all you really want to have is I/O. > > I don't know if the flash-based "SSDs" can really compete in that area. They probably can't - their technology is much slower. This is why I was concentrating on fiding a seek-intensive load which doesn't depend much on raw bandwidth :)Received on Mon Dec 17 2007 - 13:08:30 UTC
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