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 > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 > www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 > www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
