On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Henry C. <he...@cityweb.co.za> wrote:
> When the super-fast SSD-based machine fails, switching to a (slower) > standard > hard-drive based machine provides continuity and buys time while we get the > primary machine back online. > The question you should ask yourself is: can my business run at needed capacity on the slower spinning media? Our answer was "no", so we ended up with a second SSD array for the backup server as well. It was *still* totally worth the metric gazillion dollars that they cost.