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Re:The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD by chrisbolt on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @03:51AM (#797601)
I can't wait for the new X25-M. Recently threw a 160GB X25-M (first gen) in a datamining database server to replace a 6x15k SCSI RAID 10 array, and it was 2.5x faster. One disk faster than six.
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Re:The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD by zokier on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @07:22AM (#797781)
I'd add at least another disk and build a raid1-array. With a single-disk setup you miss the greatest feature of RAID, redundancy.
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Re:The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD by riobard on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @05:16AM (#797682)
Interesting! Can you elaborate a little bit on the usage pattern and how you measured the speedup, please?
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Re:The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD by chrisbolt on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @06:11PM (#799056)
It was a very simple, unscientific test: ran a MySQL query with the old drives, then ran it on the new drive. Old drives took 5 minutes, new drive took less than 2 minutes.
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