Hi david, we tried it two years ago and the performance of the USB stick was so dismal we stopped. Cheers Le 16 nov. 2013 15:13, "David Tinker" <david.tin...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Our hosting provider has a cost effective server with 2 x 4TB disks > with a 16G (or 64G) USB thumb drive option. Would it make sense to put > the Cassandra commit log on the USB thumb disk and use RAID0 to use > both 4TB disks for data (and Ubuntu 12.04)? > > Anyone know how long USB flash disks last when use for a write heavy > workload like this? > > Please tell me if this is a really bad idea. > > Our alternative is to use one 4TB disk for commit log and one for > data. Of course this will give us only half the space. > > Thanks > David >
