I will probably swap out my two 1TB HDDs when there are reasonably priced SSD equivalents. Right now, there's still way too high of a pricing premium and way too few choices for terabyte SSDs
Poll: Are you using SSDs?
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Re: Poll: Are you using SSDs?
#32I have a SSD on my Macbook Pro. Totally worth it. Definitely snappier in booting up, starting up apps, and any disk i/o-intensive operations. It's certainly noticeable. Also, you don't need to sweat the higher price per byte, because more and more of my files (and I would assume yours?) are on the cloud every day anyways, so 256GB or even 128GB is fine for me these days.
I did the same thing... and it was great. I added a 128GB SSD, but unfortunately, I needed more space for media and work files (large datasets). So, I ended up removing the DVD drive and replaced it with the old hard drive. I never need the DVD drive outside of the house, so this ended up working great for me.
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#33We are using 4x 512GB SSDs (boy, these were expensive!) in a 16-core i7 computer, running in production using PostgreSQL 9.0.0, Glassfish 3.1 and ActiveMQ.
Works great, and we do heavy queries at lightning speed. We currently run Ubuntu Linux on it but would switch to FreeBSD 8.x if the Java support was better.
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#34What I'm interested in is the effect of SSDs on compile time, which is the biggest bottleneck to my productivity. In my case, the build time for Java projects in Eclipse. I've read conflicting stories of how SSD affects this. Over here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499889/ssd-and-programmin...
its mentioned that CPU is by and large the bottleneck but over here:
http://javamoods.blogspot.com/2010/04/hdd-ssd-battle.html
the author mentions that the SSD gives big speedups to compile time.
Anyone has any data to share in regards to this?
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#35I use a SSD in my laptop, but our servers haven't made the move yet. So, this is an important thing to remember. Once, I needed to write a program to deal with large DNA sequencing files (10-100 GB per sample). On my laptop, the program worked great, but on the server it sucked due to the disk IO. I ended up needing a completely different algorithm, but this wasn't at all clear when using my SSD. If only we could afford a few terabytes of SSD...
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#36I would for both servers and my machine, but the cost for personal machines and use of AWS means "not using SSDs" for now.
Waiting for memristors! ;)
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#37I would absolutely recommend SSDs. It's one of the few times you can swap out a component in your computer and notice a performance boost. They are getting better very quickly though, so one big decision is when to pull the trigger. Every few months a new generation of SSDs with better firmware seems to come out. I've switched my laptop and home computer to SSDs.
Which SSDs can you recommend for your laptop and home computer?
Anandtech has the best reviews on SSDs I've seen. This is the latest article to benchmark current drives. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3812/the-ssd-diaries-crucials-...
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#38We have one database server with SSD (we need more speed than room) and are pretty happy with them. On a more personal note I use a Seagate Momentus XT in my Macbook Pro and this is the single best investment I made in years! This thing cost a third of a "real" SSD of the same capacity and for what an SSD is shining (boot time, application launch, ...) it's on par. The 4GB SSD cache is really improving the experience…
Which brand/model did you go with for your db server?
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#39I use a Patriot Torx 128GB in my dev machine. It died completely after two weeks. The seller told me that they are very reliable and that it was just bad luck and replaced it with a new one.
It is so fast and silent that I decided to give it another try and I have been using it for three months now.
I didn't try to recover the data but I think that in case of failure or damage it is more difficult to recover the info than from traditional disks.
Re: Poll: Are you using SSDs?
#40We have one database server with SSD (we need more speed than room) and are pretty happy with them. On a more personal note I use a Seagate Momentus XT in my Macbook Pro and this is the single best investment I made in years! This thing cost a third of a "real" SSD of the same capacity and for what an SSD is shining (boot time, application launch, ...) it's on par. The 4GB SSD cache is really improving the experience…
Just checked out anandtech's review comparing hybrid to SSD and its quite impressive - http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-revi...