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Nowadays I use SSDs in all my home machines (MacMini, laptop, gaming desktop). It really speeded them up, since seek times are so much faster. My unix server runs with a SSD for more than a year now, and I haven't had any problems with it.

Just for fun, I once configured two Intel SSDs in a stripe to see how fast it would be. After tweaking the stripe block size a bit (this made a huge difference!) the stripe maxed out at 400 megabyte/sec sustained read. That's almost a CDROMs' worth of data, each second ;-)




What was the best stripe size that worked for you?


> That's almost a CDROMs' worth of data, each second ;-)

Hmmm, since when does ~ .6 == 1? ;-)

It would be more accurate to say: "That's over half a CD-ROM's worth of data, each second ;-)"


>Hmmm, since when does ~ .6 == 1? ;-)

After engineering or physics school. Try factor of 10 to get my attention :)




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