Before you all start taking bets, I am having a difficult time understanding why you would. If you think I am nuts because SSD's have a limited lifespan, I would agree with you, however we all know that SSD's are going to get cheaper and cheaper as the days go by. The Intels I bought in April are half the price now they were then. So are the Samsungs. I suspect that by next spring, I will replace them all with new ones and they will be half the cost they are now. Why would anyone spend 3K on disks and just toss it in the river?
Simple answer: Man hour math. I have 150 virtual machines on these disks for shared storage. They hold no actual data so who really cares if they get lost. However 150 users of these virtual machines will save 5 minutes or so every day of work, which translates to $250. So $3,000 in SSD's which are easily replaced one by one with zfs saves the company $250,000 in labor. So when I replace these drives in 6 months, for somewhere around $1500 its a fantastic deal. The only bad part is I cannot estimate how much of the old disks have life is left because in a few months, I am going to have a handful of the fastest SSD's around and not sure if I would trust them for much of anything. Am I really that wrong? Derek -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
