<div dir="ltr">Which is whyI specified "static content"... <div><br></div><div style>The other advantage of modern SSDs is that when they fail, they normally fail into a fully recoverable read-only mode.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>Dave</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Michael Stauber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mstauber@blueonyx.it" target="_blank">mstauber@blueonyx.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Dave,<br>
<br>
> And/or putting static content on a couple of mirrored SSDs that have a<br>
> high IOPS capacity can really move things along.<br>
<br>
In theory a good idea. But on Linux I won't touch SSDs with a ten foot<br>
pole. At least I wouldn't store anything important on them.<br>
<br>
Granted, my experience with them was two years ago. However, it wasn't<br>
some junk, but the best large consumer SSDs that were available by then.<br>
However, they burned out within days while plugged into a RAID card in<br>
an SSD only environment that was powering a large MySQL server. With<br>
large I mean pretty damn large. :o)<br>
<br>
SSDs are only good for so and so many write cycles. On Windows the SSD<br>
makers cheat with drivers that bundle write requests to slow down the<br>
wear and tear. On Linux they can't do that.<br>
<br>
Then with the swap partition and some other heavy duty partition on an<br>
SSD things went pretty interesting real quick.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
With best regards<br>
<br>
Michael Stauber<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"> "At present, not all the possibilities implied by the above are implemented."</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"> -- Tony Firshman, 1999</font></p></div>
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