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We 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.
What 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-batt…
When you compile, does your computer's hard drive thrash, or is the CPU pegged at 100%?
Really, it's the single best upgrade anyone can make to their machine. At work, I've got two in a Mac Mini and it smokes any other machine at tasks not tied to CPU - building projects, rendering to disk, everything. At home I've got two in a 13" MacBook Pro and it's like being in the future.
Win7 boots in 10 sek. Firefox-4 is up and responding in a fraction of a second.
Thought about buying one for some time, but after reading of the OCZ HSDL ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/30/ocz_hdsl/ ) i'll wait for the next generation hoping in bigger/faster disks, atm the size/price ratio is not yet good enough.
We're currently stuck with PCIe->SATA controller->SATA attached NAND controller devices that implement their own wear leveling and bad-block management with degree of effectiveness widely varying among manufacturer's implementations. We have to use post-hoc benchmark results to attempt to reverse-engineer the the performance/price/longevity tradeoffs that were baked into the device.
I suspect that no mass-market ASIC company will be willing to get this on the market until Microsoft ships an OS with a native NAND controller driver and flash-aware filesystem and a system OEM contracts with their BIOS vendor to allow booting from the thing.
For me, multi-tasking is the killer feature: being able to load up Visual Studio, Fireworks and anything else I fancy at the same time without having any noticeable impact on system performance has made me really fall in love with my SSD.
We 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…
If you have a laptop as your primary machine and need to store music and photos, SSDs with sufficient capacity are prohibitively expensive, which is where hybrid drives are ideal.
Thought about buying one for some time, but after reading of the OCZ HSDL ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/30/ocz_hdsl/ ) i'll wait for the next generation hoping in bigger/faster disks, atm the size/price ratio is not yet good enough.
We 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…