Re: SSD Drives

From: Bret Stern <bret_stern(at)machinemanagement(dot)com>
To: Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com>
Cc: Brent Wood <Brent(dot)Wood(at)niwa(dot)co(dot)nz>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SSD Drives
Date: 2014-04-02 21:55:19
Message-ID: 1396475719.2481.6.camel@developer.localdomain
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Care to share the SSD hardware you're using?

I've used none to date, and have some critical data I would like
to put on a development server to test with.

Regards,

Bret Stern

On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 15:31 -0500, Shaun Thomas wrote:
> On 04/02/2014 02:50 PM, Brent Wood wrote:
>
> > http://it-blog.5amsolutions.com/2010/08/performance-of-postgresql-ssd-vs.html
>
> While interesting, these results are extremely out of date compared to
> current drives. Current chips and firmware regularly put out 2-10 times
> better performance than even the best graphs on this page, depending on
> what you buy.
>
> We moved all of our performance-critical servers to NVRAM-based storage
> years ago. For us, it was well worth the added expense.
>
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