Re: Heads-up on SSD

2007-12-16 Thread Toke Eskildsen
Chris Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Toke, This is fantastic stuff! I always wanted to convince (rich) > customers to try SSD. Now it's more convincing! We expect to _save_ money by using SSDs. They cost more that conventional harddrives if you just look at them isolated, but when we look at per

Re: Heads-up on SSD

2007-12-14 Thread Erick Erickson
This is great stuff, thanks for posting it. Erick On Dec 14, 2007 5:59 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

Re: Heads-up on SSD

2007-12-14 Thread Chris Lu
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/App

Heads-up on SSD

2007-12-14 Thread Toke Eskildsen
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 l