On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Daevid Vincent <dae...@daevid.com> wrote:
> While SSD's (Solid State Disks) have traditionally not been the best > hardware to use for rewrite-intensive operations like databases, over > the last few months, some leading Linux kernel engineers have been > raving about next generation Intel SSD's that are close to 20x faster > than the fastest disk drives for random access. If robust enough, these > next generation SSD's may greatly improve relational database > performance. > You are confusing me here. What is an SSD by your definition? (I'll be on Wikipedia right after I make this post.) If you mean a purely RAM-based device, it should work fine with great performance. If you mean a FLASH/EEPROM-based device, you might have a RAM front end to it, but there would be limits to how much data you can change how quickly. What is your definition of an SSD? Got a typical manufacturer and model number?
