12-21-2008, 10:03 AM | #1 |
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Solid State Drives.
Has anyone had any experience with running a mud on SSDs yet? Our biggest bottleneck is disk i/o so quite excited by the potential in these, but have heard various anecdotes about reliability and how long the data can actually be retained on an SSD.
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12-26-2008, 08:58 AM | #2 |
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Re: Solid State Drives.
Never tried it myself, but EVE Online seems to do ok by any account.
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12-27-2008, 10:44 PM | #3 |
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Re: Solid State Drives.
I'm no SSD expert, so take what I write with a grain of salt, but....
There are multiple types of SSDs, but they kind of boil down to Flash-based vs. RAM-based. Flash-based SSDs: RAM-based SSDS: RAM-based SSDs are basically superior in every way for performance. Flash SSDs are becoming pretty reasonable price-wise though. My latest laptop has a 64 gig Flash SSD drive in it, for instance, and I think it only cost $400 extra or something. (And man does Windows start up quickly with it!). A quick google search isn't showing me any reliable pricing for RAM-based SSDs, but when we looked at using SSDs for Iron Realms I remember that they were at least 25x more expensive per byte stored than Flash SSDs (which are themselves considerably more expensive per byte stored than conventional HDs). That was a couple of years ago though, and I don't know how the market has changed (I know that Flash-based SSDs have been dropping quickly in price but have no idea what has been happening to RAM-based.) --matt |
12-27-2008, 10:53 PM | #4 |
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Re: Solid State Drives.
Found some pricing from 2007. The RamSan 400 (RAM-based SSD), with a 128 gig capacity, was running about $90,000 for a base unit.
Ouch. --matt |
12-28-2008, 11:15 PM | #5 |
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Re: Solid State Drives.
Ouch! Thanks for the info.
Sounds like a RAM based SSD won't be a viable mainstream option for some time yet. Oh well, back to trusty old zlib. |
12-29-2008, 07:25 AM | #6 |
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Re: Solid State Drives.
Peanuts!
Oh wait, that was a comma and not a decimal point? Damn. |
10-14-2009, 07:11 PM | #7 |
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Re: Solid State Drives.
It has been almost a year since we looked at this.
How much have prices come down? |