Gordan Bobic wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
all the enterprise SAN guys I've talked with say the Intel x25 drives
are consumer junk, about the only thing they will use is STEC Zeus,
and even then they mirror them.
A couple of points there.
1) Mirroring flash drives is a bit ill advised since f
Gordan Bobic wrote:
How much of that dislike of Intel is actually justified by something
other than the margins offered / procurement policy (a.k.a. buying
from the vendor that sends you the best present rather than from the
vendor that has the best product)? Intel X25-E drives have write
endu
John R Pierce wrote:
all the enterprise SAN guys I've talked with say the Intel x25 drives
are consumer junk, about the only thing they will use is STEC Zeus, and
even then they mirror them.
A couple of points there.
1) Mirroring flash drives is a bit ill advised since flash has a rather
pr
Vick Khera wrote:
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
except that the fault tolerance issue isn't worked out yet.
Yep. I do not want to be the guy doing the product testing to see if
they're suitable for a high-write DB load.
all the enterprise SAN guys I've ta
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> except that the fault tolerance issue isn't worked out yet.
Yep. I do not want to be the guy doing the product testing to see if
they're suitable for a high-write DB load.
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On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> here is a _used_ 320gb ramsan for 15k :-). dram storage is pricey.
>>
>
> I think using DRAM as the base is way better than flash. Just use the
> flash or a regular disk as the backup w
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> here is a _used_ 320gb ramsan for 15k :-). dram storage is pricey.
>
I think using DRAM as the base is way better than flash. Just use the
flash or a regular disk as the backup with a battery to power the
backup operation.
I have in my s
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Brad Nicholson
wrote:
> I'm not sure what the price point is though.
here is a _used_ 320gb ramsan for 15k :-). dram storage is pricey.
merlin
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On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 15:27 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> > Merlin Moncure wrote:
> >>
> >> So flash isn't yet a general purpose database solution, and wont be until
> >> the write performance problem is fixed in a way that doesn't
> >> comprom
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>
>> So flash isn't yet a general purpose database solution, and wont be until
>> the write performance problem is fixed in a way that doesn't
>> compromise on volatility.
>
> Flash drives that ship with a supercapacitor l
Merlin Moncure wrote:
So flash isn't yet a general purpose database solution, and wont be until
the write performance problem is fixed in a way that doesn't
compromise on volatility.
Flash drives that ship with a supercapacitor large enough to ensure
orderly write cache flushing in the event o
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
>> Have you considered using one of these:
>> http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=270&prod_no=ANS-9010&type1_title=
>> Solid State Drive&type1_idno=13
>
> We did some research which suggested that performance may not be so
> gre
> Have you considered using one of these:
> http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=270&prod_no=ANS-9010&type1_title=
> Solid State Drive&type1_idno=13
We did some research which suggested that performance may not be so
great with them because the PG engine is not optimized to utiliz
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