Re: SSD Drives

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)optionshouse(dot)com> wrote:
> On 04/02/2014 04:55 PM, Bret Stern wrote:
>
>> Care to share the SSD hardware you're using?
>
>
> We use these:
>
> http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodrive2/
>
> The older versions of these cards can read faster than a RAID-10 of 80x15k
> RPM SAS drives, based on our tests from a couple yeas ago. Writes aren't
> *quite* as fast, but still much better than even a large RAID array.
>
> They ain't cheap, though. You can expect to pay around $15k USD per TB, I
> believe. There are other similar products from other vendors which may have
> different cost/performance ratios, but I can only vouch for stuff I've
> personally tested.
>
> Our adventure with these cards was a presentation at Postgres Open in 2011.
> Slides are here:
>
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/c/c5/Nvram_fun_profit.pdf
>

Where I work we use the MLC based FusionIO cards and they are quite
fast. It's actually hard to push them to their max with only 24 or 32
cores in a fast machine. My favorite thing about them is their
fantastic support.