[olug] SSD write durability in production use

[Will Langford]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Dan Anderson <dan-anderson at cox.net> wrote:

> Look at the options from Texas Memory.
>
> RAM->Flash should go pretty fast and give you a good backup (mitigating the
> battery life issue).
>
> I don't know anything about the gigabyte card or the WOW card you mention,
> but if you can afford it you can get something that backs up to
> flash (10,000+ backups) when the main power drops.
>
> In this case you use your battery life just to write your backup to flash
> so
> having 16 or 72 hours is overkill.
>
> Dan
>

WOW thing -> Fusion IO SSD

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39600/135/

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The rest -> hmmm. Perhaps I should mention that we've had people pull the
power plug out of our servers ? :).  Many of the places we install servers
to do not have a nice rack system with secure access stuff and all of that.
 I did consider UPS power fail -> back it up to classic media... but ...
idiots yanking power chords... ugh.

Although -- in the places where the speed boost would be needed, it would be
in places that have hundreds of clients.  As such, the extra cost to justify
a rack or other secure enclosure would make sense.  I'll discuss it with
coworkers :).  Data loss is end-of-business situation.

I do remember looking at Texas Memory's offering as well as several other
place's offerings :).  At the time, expense was rather prohibitive, but I
imagine it's becoming much more reasonable now.

-Will