Ram put forth on 8/16/2010 8:19 AM: > But Enterprise quality SSD's are so expensive. I can get an additional > server and still save money.
I call BS: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167023 $214 USD is _not_ expensive at all, and only a fraction of the cost of a server. Putting your queue on a decent filesystem such as XFS on this device will yield you over 8,000 random read/write IO/s (using the delayed logging mount option in 2.6.35 would effectively get you over 15k IO/s, but that feature isn't production quality yet). For comparison, a single 10k/15k SSA drive will get you about 300-400 random IO/s. And to add insult to injury, such an SAS drive from any of SUN, Dell, HP, or IBM will run you well north of $700 and in the case of EMC that single drive will cost you $2000. That's no joke. EMC _IS_ a joke. This is an 80GB SSD which should be far more than plenty of space for queue files. 8,000 files per second into and out of your queue for ~$200 USD is ridiculously fast and ridiculously cheap. I don't see how you can say no to this solution. For ~$200 USD it is at bare minimum worth buying one and testing it yourself. Whether you consider it "enterprise" quality or not, it's Intel, and it ain't gonna fail. If I was running an MX farm that needed maximum performance, I'd already have one of these in each server, many months ago. ;) -- Stan