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.

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