On: The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Be...

[chrisbolt]

I can't wait for the new X25-M. Recently threw a 160GB X25-M (first gen) in a datamining database server to replace a 6x15k SCSI RAID 10 array, and it was 2.5x faster. One disk faster than six.

[zokier → chrisbolt]

I'd add at least another disk and build a raid1-array. With a single-disk setup you miss the greatest feature of RAID, redundancy.

[riobard → chrisbolt]

Interesting! Can you elaborate a little bit on the usage pattern and how you measured the speedup, please?

[chrisbolt → riobard]

It was a very simple, unscientific test: ran a MySQL query with the old drives, then ran it on the new drive. Old drives took 5 minutes, new drive took less than 2 minutes.