Modern versions are better, but you can still get corrupted sectors on
SSDs.  I wouldn't use one as my only disk, but as part of a SAN, if you can
afford it, no problem.

Rick
On Mar 16, 2012 5:17 PM, "Peter Romain" <p.romain.arsl...@parsolutions.co.uk>
wrote:

> I'd try the SSD if I was you.
>
> Cloning and replacing the hard drive in the laptop is a breeze.
>
> Paying for the SSD is painful though - ~ £460 for a 500G version here in
> the UK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:
> arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Murnane, Phil
> Sent: 16 March 2012 13:30
> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: Solid State Hard Drives
>
> Peter:
>
> I have a habit of keeping a resource monitor (Windows 7 Resource Monitor
> or CentOS GNOME widget) running on my laptop at all times and of never
> using the host OS to do anything except run VMs.  Given sufficient RAM (8GB
> seems adequate), I've found that the hard disk is almost always the
> bottleneck in performance, especially when running more than one VM.
>
> I've been considering buying an external esata enclosure with two 7200 RPM
> drives configured as RAID 0 for my work laptop.  I use a similar storage
> configuration on my home server, and the disk bottleneck is much reduced.
>
> All that being said, SSDs have seemed pretty stable for the last couple of
> years.  If performance similar to the RAID 0 configuration can be achieved
> internally, then it would be _way_ more convenient than an external
> enclosure.
>
> HTH,
> --Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:
> arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Peter Romain
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 07:49
> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> Subject: Solid State Hard Drives
>
> Hi All,
>
> I couldn't get ITSM to run on my laptop which has an i7 processor and 8G
> RAM.
>
> I recently upgraded it to 16G and replaced the hard drive with a 500GB SSD.
>
> Now ITSM flies and I can run it and ADDM together in VM's and still do the
> normal document/email stuff.
>
> Are SSD's now sufficiently stable to use in datacenter servers?
>
> If so, would this help solve some performance issues?
>
> I'm not responsible for any servers so am just asking out of interest.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
>
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