On 29-Nov-10 11:56, Ted Unangst wrote:
buying a new SSD to replace your "burned out" one every year is still cheaper than building a 15k sas drive raid set with equivalent performance.
Yes, but I that kind of performance is over-kill for a mail server. Unless you are pushing well over 1 gb/s for mail, you don't need anything more than just a cheap 80 Gig 7.2k SATA II disk, or a couple in RAID. And if you are pushing that much mail, you should just CARP a couple MTAs together.
The only time I've seen SSDs worth the price is in rough service equipment and database servers getting hit with over a hundred thousand (read) queries a minute. Most SSDs are slower for writing than their whirly counter-parts.
-Christopher Ahrens
