On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Derek Anderson <de...@rockymtndata.net>wrote:
> Before you all start taking bets, I am having a difficult time > understanding why you would. If you think I am nuts because SSD's have a > limited lifespan, I would agree with you, however we all know that SSD's are > going to get cheaper and cheaper as the days go by. The Intels I bought in > April are half the price now they were then. So are the Samsungs. I > suspect that by next spring, I will replace them all with new ones and they > will be half the cost they are now. Why would anyone spend 3K on disks and > just toss it in the river? > > Simple answer: Man hour math. I have 150 virtual machines on these disks > for shared storage. They hold no actual data so who really cares if they > get lost. However 150 users of these virtual machines will save 5 minutes > or so every day of work, which translates to $250. So $3,000 in SSD's > which are easily replaced one by one with zfs saves the company $250,000 in > labor. So when I replace these drives in 6 months, for somewhere around > $1500 its a fantastic deal. > > The only bad part is I cannot estimate how much of the old disks have life > is left because in a few months, I am going to have a handful of the fastest > SSD's around and not sure if I would trust them for much of anything. > > Am I really that wrong? > > Derek > I'll take them when you're done :) --Tim
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