> i've been evaluating replacing the worm in the coraid fileserver's > sr15x1 with ssd. so far it looks promising.
i don't understand this. your "worm" is magnetic disk, right? why would you put the ssd in the slow half (the worm) instead of the fast half (the cache)? similarly, someone on this thread said they'd use ssd for just the arenas (which are mostly linear access), when if i had to make the choice i would use it for just the index (which is mostly random access and would benefit more from dropping the seek penalities). russ
