[ale] Value SSDs - price/perf

[Greg Freemyer]

I've read nothing to imply these value line SSDs are something I'd put
in a server.

Too unreliable, and SSDs can only have so many write cycles in their
entire life, but you say your transaction rate is low, so that may not
matter.

Anyway, I was configuring a server on Dell's site a couple days ago.
I was shocked how much they wanted for a SSD for their servers.

Lets see:
with the Dell PowerEdge M710HD blade, its $1949 to add a 100GB SSD as
a second drive!

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=MLB1908&s=biz
(scroll down to the second HDD area)

You better really want it bad!

(I don't know if that is typical of server SSD cost, or if Dell is gouging.)

Greg

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking of going SSD in our servers.  Is that a bad idea?
>
> 40GB is _MORE_ than I'll ever need for our software.
>
> We run a ton of perl and mysql.  The MySQL transactions are very low.
> I think my largest database may be 250MB in size and it is 5 years old.
>
> I'm looking at SSD as something that may be more reliable.  Out of all
> the servers we've deployed we've had an unusual number of failures.  A
> majority of failures took place after FedEx had handled the servers.
> So much so,  that our vendor (MBX) started shipping us the drives in
> bubble wrap in separate boxes.
>
> Chris
>