RE: Is SSD suitable for mysql server?

2010-10-26 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com wrote: From: Daevid Vincent dae...@daevid.com Subject: RE: Is SSD suitable for mysql server? To: 'mysql' mysql@lists.mysql.com Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 21:52 I guess it depends on how important your data is too.  Quite a few

Re: Is SSD suitable for mysql server?

2010-10-26 Thread Joerg Bruehe
Hi Warren, all! Your statement is true ... Warren Young wrote: [[...]] A lone 2 TB rotating disk will beat a top-of-the-line SSD for linear writes, and you can beat an SSD for linear reads with a pair of disks in RAID-0 or -1, or four disks in RAID-10. [[...]] ... but irrelevant: Linear

Re: Is SSD suitable for mysql server?

2010-10-26 Thread mos
At 12:56 AM 10/25/2010, you wrote: Hello, We are a company for gaming. Our main db is mysql 5.1 installed on Linux. Currently the hardware for mysql is 2*4 CPU, 16G memory, Raid 10 (four disks). Now we have the plan to replace the disks with SSD for better performance. Do you think is it right

Re: Is SSD suitable for mysql server?

2010-10-25 Thread Johan De Meersman
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:56 AM, wroxdb wro...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, We are a company for gaming. Our main db is mysql 5.1 installed on Linux. Currently the hardware for mysql is 2*4 CPU, 16G memory, Raid 10 (four disks). Now we have the plan to replace the disks with SSD for better

Re: Is SSD suitable for mysql server?

2010-10-25 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, Johan De Meersman vegiv...@tuxera.be wrote: From: Johan De Meersman vegiv...@tuxera.be Subject: Re: Is SSD suitable for mysql server? To: wroxdb wro...@gmail.com Cc: mysql mysql@lists.mysql.com Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 10:03 On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:56 AM

Re: Is SSD suitable for mysql server?

2010-10-25 Thread Warren Young
On 10/25/2010 3:03 AM, Johan De Meersman wrote: SSD may still be useful if you have a lot of writes, though. Only if by a lot you mean a minority. A lone 2 TB rotating disk will beat a top-of-the-line SSD for linear writes, and you can beat an SSD for linear reads with a pair of disks in

Re: Is SSD suitable for mysql server?

2010-10-25 Thread Warren Young
On 10/25/2010 4:32 AM, Glyn Astill wrote: There have been some reports of raid cards not behaving themselvs with SSDs attached. I'd be surprised if these bugs haven't all been worked out by now. SSDs started to hit the mass market in force about two years ago. Any vendor still shipping a

RE: Is SSD suitable for mysql server?

2010-10-25 Thread Daevid Vincent
I guess it depends on how important your data is too. Quite a few of the SSDs on the market have been proven to not honour flush requests, so if the power goes out you've got corrupted data. Uh. If you're not using a UPS battery backup then you deserve to loose your data. And if you don't