On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 11:06:30AM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > Unless you want to spend significant cash, I don't see any reason to go > with SSD, frankly. The affordable ones have extremely high failure > rates from the reviews I've read. And they often fail suddenly and > spectacularly, with no warning. At least the ones you see advertised on > newegg (OCZ, etc).
Hmm, this really worries me. I can't afford to have my server die suddenly and unexpectedly. And I've heard you're "not supposed to" use RAID with SSDs. Maybe SSD is a better choice with laptops than servers. > frankly, 90% of the time. It's not like you're serving a couple of > thousand users over a couple of gigabit links, like the file servers I > used to work with. True. > Don't bother with Atom. Any particular reason you would say this? > I replaced the case fans with NewEgg's quietest fans, and despite two > drives spinning and the stock cpu cooler, I can hardly hear the thing. Hmm, quiet fans. That would probably satisfy me. Phillip -- Phillip Hellewell <sshock AT sshock.net> -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
