[CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

Tue Jan 12 17:37:20 UTC 2010
nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>

Mathieu Baudier wrote:

> http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm
> are mainstream SSD (not enterprise) and thus are likely to bring me
> problems.

At this point I would say any SSD that is not from STEC is not
"enterprise", it seems most vendors at least for the moment
have partnered with STEC for their enterprise SSD needs.

http://www.stec-inc.com/

While I don't think you can boot from it, FusionIO is probably decent
quality as well, and screaming performance.

nate