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We're using Fusion-io SSDs in a lot of our database (MySQL) servers. It makes a massive difference.
What host are you using and how much does this cost you?
I am a total convert to SSDs as a result. Still using HDD for the OS and other things like mass storage. When the price point is better I'll move all the disks across.
Now it's CPU that's the bottle neck :P
I'm not using one in a production web environment, but my Macbook Pro has one in it now and it's phenomenal. Photoshop boots up in quite literally 3 seconds or less (cold startup) and every other action imaginable is noticeably quicker. I used to feel like browsing files in the Finder was slower than it was for me on my old Windows XP machines but eventually I got used to it. I use keyboard navigation as well, so it…
I got one when I bought my new laptop, and between SSDs and Windows Seven it has been the greatest productivity boost I've ever gotten out of a hardware upgrade in literally a decade. My machine now screams -- going from a cold boot I can get Chrome open before wireless handshakes are complete.
I'm not using one in a production web environment, but my Macbook Pro has one in it now and it's phenomenal. Photoshop boots up in quite literally 3 seconds or less (cold startup) and every other action imaginable is noticeably quicker. I used to feel like browsing files in the Finder was slower than it was for me on my old Windows XP machines but eventually I got used to it. I use keyboard navigation as well, so it…
Been using an SSD in my Macbook Pro for the last year ... easily the best computer upgrade I've made in my lifetime (no kidding) ... Photoshop and Netbeans open up in 5-9 seconds, booting into OS X takes less than 30-40 seconds and applications generally fire up in the blink of an eye. One word of caution though, when the SSD runs out of free blocks and has to re-use blocks marked as deleted, the performance hit can…
As for "sudden application freezes" on XP. That's not true unless it's true for all people running XP. My systems NEVER freeze on HD, or SSD. But WAIT. I see what you are doing. You run in IN your Apple machine which proves my point that Apple Mac's are cheap hardware, and also the drive is not formatted in regular NTFS which also helps to slow it down. Don't sit there on a slow mac thinking how slow XP is. Get a high end PC for under $1000, and watch it out do your mac. Also notice how mac doesn't support TRIM.
But again. I see one of you Macbook Pro users about every 2 hours. Please don't tell me you bought it because it was faster and better. It's not. Only in terms of the fact that it's so obscure that you are less likely to get malware. But it's not a big enough difference to matter really. Other than this one point, there is NOTHING better about mac. Unless in a stylistic way, you like the shiny colors etc. The OS's are far too similar and both work just fine.
I'm not using one in a production web environment, but my Macbook Pro has one in it now and it's phenomenal. Photoshop boots up in quite literally 3 seconds or less (cold startup) and every other action imaginable is noticeably quicker. I used to feel like browsing files in the Finder was slower than it was for me on my old Windows XP machines but eventually I got used to it. I use keyboard navigation as well, so it…
It's a cool drive. But if you were really using one in production etc, it's not like you'd need a Mac! Everyone thinks that every where I go and it's like a disease actually. Macbook is absolutely worthless in terms of raw computing power. You pay double and get a computer 1/2 the speed, but most people think you get a computer double the speed. Simple example: I got an i7 based pc at 4ghz that will out render any ty…
But, it's just a hack to begin with and SSD is the patch. I don't have the time/option to find and hack out a better storage mechanism for that particular task. RRD makes little sense in this day and age, but it's what I'm stuck with due to time constraints.