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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:08:29 +0100
From:      "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        "Rainer Duffner" <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS melting under postgres...
Message-ID:  <9bbcef730712170608k28d636a8y45de089bfa99fc2e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <476675D6.7060905@ultra-secure.de>
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On 17/12/2007, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
> > I'm interested in how SSD could help me (if they actually can) with
> > large-ish systems running web servers with associated software (e.g.
> > database) and office-like servers. So far, I'm having trouble
> > envisioning a seek-intensive storage application that's also temporary
> > (to avoid keeping the "real" data on flash drives). Maybe a mail server
> > queue, with mailboxes on standard drives?
> >
>
> Yep.
> Although, I don't know if the "cheap" SSDs mentioned can compete with
> the SD-RAM backed "super SSDs".
> Because, in the mail-server scenario (also: clamav-box, spamassassin
> etc.), all you really want to have is I/O.
>
> I don't know if the flash-based "SSDs" can really compete in that area.

They probably can't - their technology is much slower. This is why I
was concentrating on fiding a seek-intensive load which doesn't depend
much on raw bandwidth :)



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