Toke, This is fantastic stuff! I always wanted to convince (rich) customers to try SSD. Now it's more convincing!
I think the results will be more interesting for indexing, which has a lot of file merges. -- Chris Lu ------------------------- Instant Scalable Full-Text Search On Any Database/Application site: http://www.dbsight.net demo: http://search.dbsight.com Lucene Database Search in 3 minutes: http://wiki.dbsight.com/index.php?title=Create_Lucene_Database_Search_in_3_minutes DBSight customer (remain anonymous per request) got 2.6 Million Euro funding! On Dec 14, 2007 2:59 AM, Toke Eskildsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's an interesting article on state-of-the-art setup with Mtron > Solid State Drives at > http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/ > The concise version is that Mtron flash drives puts all traditional > harddrives to shame and seems especially well suited for applications > that performs a lot of seeks. No surprise there, but read the article > for some eye-opening numbers. > > At The State and University Library in Denmark we've experimented with > two Samsung SSDs vs. two 15.000 RPM traditional harddisks in RAID setup > with our current Lucene index at about 30GB and logged queries from our > users. > > For searches we can confirm that the SSDs are substantially faster, > especially when the available amount of RAM for caching relative to the > index size is small. A teaser-graph can be viewed at > http://wiki.statsbiblioteket.dk/summa/Hardware > > Our test should not be seen as authoritative or even even representative > for Lucene on SSDs in general, but it seems clear to us that users of > Lucene-systems ought to look into SSDs if they haven't already done so. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
