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Re:Intel's New 6Gps 510 series SATA SSD, Tested and It's Fast by dablue on Friday March 04, 2011 @09:01PM (#2290595)
+1 for good backups

My strategy from now on is to to mirror the SSD to a traditional HDD. That way, in the case of a SSD failure, we can accept the performance hit and still be able to run smoothly from the platter.

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Re:Intel's New 6Gps 510 series SATA SSD, Tested and It's Fast by justinsb on Saturday March 05, 2011 @01:13PM (#2291943)
Check out Facebook's FlashCache: they use SSDs as a cache on to traditional HDDs. You can have a read-cache to keep 'hot' data fast, and (if you want to) you can have a write cache that will buffer writes on SSD before flushing to HDD.

I don't know whether it's ready for general (non-Facebook) use yet, but it is definitely one to watch.

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