Comments on: Plans for SSD? https://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/plans-for-ssd/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:01:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Ryan Lowe https://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/plans-for-ssd/#comment-542 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:01:01 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=1575#comment-542 @pat

Fusion-IO has 18k blocks, which cause multiple (and partial) pages to be written … the performance is only okay. They could do much better for the price.

]]> By: Ryan Lowe https://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/plans-for-ssd/#comment-541 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:59:22 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=1575#comment-541 No way in the next year:

1) SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL+InnoDB will all *destroy* the lifespan of any SSD. Each block can handle ~10k modification operations … which is *nothing* in a high-traffic operation.
2) There exists no filesystem optimized for SSDs
3) There exists no RAID hardware optimized for SSDs.

I’ll wait for the rest of the supporting hardware stack to catch up!

]]> By: Sarah Barela https://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/plans-for-ssd/#comment-540 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:01:55 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=1575#comment-540 I want to use them for my next generation SQL Servers for tran logs, but I can’t find a vendor who can do a mixed drive SAN that does not start at $100,000. We ran the numbers and to get our needed IO it would cost far less to use SSD drives, but they need to be in shared storage and that costs a fortune.

]]> By: Pat Wright https://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/plans-for-ssd/#comment-539 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:42:02 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=1575#comment-539 We have been looking into this. Haven’t done a ton of testing but would like to get my hands on some to get real numbers. I would check out Fusion-IO another option in the form of a card for the server.

http://www.fusionio.com/

Pat

]]> By: Aaron Bertrand https://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/plans-for-ssd/#comment-538 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:41:25 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=1575#comment-538 I have no idea where that smiley came from.

]]> By: Aaron Bertrand https://thomaslarock.com/2009/04/plans-for-ssd/#comment-537 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:40:52 +0000 http://sqlbatman.com/?p=1575#comment-537 I’m not convinced that write performance on SSDs will hold up to heavy tempdb usage. Anyway our budget for new hardware is frozen, so I am hoping that none of our existing stuff breaks down, never mind upgrading. 🙂

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