Hi Al, Sorry, but "leading the market" is not right at this point.
www.superssd.com has the answer to all those questions about SSD and reliability/speed for many years.. But I'm with you. I'm looking forward the coming products of SUN concerning SSD.. btw: it's seems to me that this thread is a little bit OT. regards, Tobias Exner Al Hopper schrieb: > I've been reading, with great (personal/professional) interest about > Sun getting very serious about SSD-equipping servers as a standard > feature in the 2nd half of this year. Yeah! Excellent news - and > it's nice to see Sun lead, rather than trail the market! Those of us, > who are ZFS zealots, know the value of a ZFS log, and/or ZFS cache > device and how these devices can (very positively) impact the > performance of a ZFS raid configuration built on cost effective SATA > disk drives. But - based on personal observation - there is a lot of > hype surrounding SSD reliability. Obviously the *promise* of this > technology is higher performance and *reliability* with lower power > requirements due to no (mechanical) moving parts. But... if you look > broadly at the current SSD product offerings, you see: a) lower than > expected performance - particularly in regard to write IOPS (I/O Ops > per Second) and b) warranty periods that are typically 1 year - with > the (currently rare) exception of products that are offered with a 5 > year warranty. > > Obviously, for SSD products to live up to the current marketing hype, > they need to deliver superior performance and *reliability*. > Everyone I know *wants* one or more SSD devices - but they also have > the expectation that those devices will come with a warranty at least > equivalent to current hard disk drives (3 or 5 years). > > So ... I'm interested in learning from anyone on this list, and, in > particular, from Team ZFS, what the reality is regarding SSD > reliability. Obviously Sun employees are not going to compromise > their employment and divulge upcoming product specific data - but > there must be *some* data (white papers etc) in the public domain that > would provide some relevant technical data?? > > Regards, > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
