Greg Smith wrote:
> Karl Denninger wrote:
>> With the write cache off on these disks they still are huge wins for
>> very-heavy-read applications, which many are.
> Very read-heavy applications would do better to buy a ton of RAM 
> instead and just make sure they populate from permanent media (say by 
> reading everything in early at sequential rates to prime the cache).  
> There is an extremely narrow use-case where SSDs are the right 
> technology, and it's only in a subset even of read-heavy apps where 
> they make sense.

Out of curiosity, what are those narrow use cases where you think SSD's 
are the correct technology?

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Brad Nicholson  416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.

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