On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Al Hopper wrote: > > > It looks like Intel has a huge hit (product) on its hands with the > > latest SSD product announcements. No pricing yet ... but the specs > > will push computer system IO bandwidth performance to numbers only > > possible today with extremely expensive RAM based disk subsystems. > > > > SSDs + ZFS - a marriage made in (computer) heaven! > > Where's the beef? > > I sense a lot of smoke and mirrors here, similar to Intel's recent CPU > "announcements" which don't even reveal the number of cores. No > prices and funny numbers that the writers of technical articles can't > seem to get straight. > > Obviously these are a significant improvement for laptop drives but > how many laptop users have a need for 11,000 IOPs and 170MB/s? It > seems to me that most laptops suffer from insufficent RAM and > low-power components which don't deliver much performance. The CPUs > which come in laptops are not going to be able to process 170MB/s. > > What about the dual-ported SAS models for enterprise use? > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss I don't know about that. I just went from an SSD back to a SATA drive because the SSD started failing in less than a month (I'm having troubles believing this great write-leveling they talk about is working properly...). And the SATA drive is dog slow in comparison. The biggest issue is seek times. Opening apps/directories there is a VERY noticeable difference from the SSD to this drive. The user experience is drastically improved with the SSD imho. Of course, the fact that it started giving me i/o errors after just 3 weeks means it's going to be RMA'd and won't find a home back in my laptop anytime soon. This was one of the 64GB OCZ Core drives for reference. --Tim
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