[BlueOnyx:12893] Re: Server hardware

[Jeff Keller]

I'm not sure if Amazon solved the issues Dave is talking about, but their
provisioned IOPS (
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/03/13/amazon-rds-3tb-30k-iops/)
works great with Linux systems in the elastic compute environment and is
reeeeeally fast!  (And pricey--but worth it!)

Of course, it may be an apples/oranges comparison (standalone server vs
cloud infrastructure) but thought it was worth mentioning.

Jeff

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it>wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> > And/or putting static content on a couple of mirrored SSDs that have a
> > high IOPS capacity can really move things along.
>
> In theory a good idea. But on Linux I won't touch SSDs with a ten foot
> pole. At least I wouldn't store anything important on them.
>
> Granted, my experience with them was two years ago. However, it wasn't
> some junk, but the best large consumer SSDs that were available by then.
> However, they burned out within days while plugged into a RAID card in
> an SSD only environment that was powering a large MySQL server. With
> large I mean pretty damn large. :o)
>
> SSDs are only good for so and so many write cycles. On Windows the SSD
> makers cheat with drivers that bundle write requests to slow down the
> wear and tear. On Linux they can't do that.
>
> Then with the swap partition and some other heavy duty partition on an
> SSD things went pretty interesting real quick.
>
> --
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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