psych-major
03-03-2005, 01:09 PM
This worked so well for klackenfus yesterday, that I thought I might also take a turn picking the brain of the collective unconscious!
Here's my issue, I have been tasked with writing a whitepaper on the benefits of Solid State Disk (SSD) in a non-mainframe environment, i.e. Windows and Linux.
First, if you don't know what SSD is, you can read up on it
here (http://www.texmemsys.com/). (I work for one of their resellers)
Basically it's really fast, really expensive disk storage. The question then would be this: as a sysadmin, what are your I/O headaches and is ridiculously fast storage worth the price to cure it.
These units come in configurations from 8 - 128 gigs.
The 8 gig unit has one 2-channel, 2gig fibre card, one power supply, one battery, and one hard drive for backup in case of power loss.
All units 16 gig and larger have up to four 2-channel, 2gig fibre cards that can be set up as redundant failover or 8gig of total bandwidth, dual hot-swap power supplies, dual batteries, and a four-drive SATA RAID for power loss backup.
Prices range from $30K for the 8 gig unit up to around $225K for the 128 gig unit.
Several high profile customers have bought this storage, most notably the US government (http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1176) and a liitle outfit called Echelon (http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2430). Links are to TechWorld news articles.
But getting back to my question, does this really apply to those of us who actually have a finite budget to work with?
So, if you're a sys admin or are responsible for servers handling massive data flow like some kind of rendering farm or maybe a video on demand system, please give me your thoughts about this.
Please note: I am looking for real-world insight on this, I don't need "This would be really cool at a LAN party." I can come up with those ideas by myself. :D
Thanks and I look forward to your interesting thoughts!
Here's my issue, I have been tasked with writing a whitepaper on the benefits of Solid State Disk (SSD) in a non-mainframe environment, i.e. Windows and Linux.
First, if you don't know what SSD is, you can read up on it
here (http://www.texmemsys.com/). (I work for one of their resellers)
Basically it's really fast, really expensive disk storage. The question then would be this: as a sysadmin, what are your I/O headaches and is ridiculously fast storage worth the price to cure it.
These units come in configurations from 8 - 128 gigs.
The 8 gig unit has one 2-channel, 2gig fibre card, one power supply, one battery, and one hard drive for backup in case of power loss.
All units 16 gig and larger have up to four 2-channel, 2gig fibre cards that can be set up as redundant failover or 8gig of total bandwidth, dual hot-swap power supplies, dual batteries, and a four-drive SATA RAID for power loss backup.
Prices range from $30K for the 8 gig unit up to around $225K for the 128 gig unit.
Several high profile customers have bought this storage, most notably the US government (http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1176) and a liitle outfit called Echelon (http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2430). Links are to TechWorld news articles.
But getting back to my question, does this really apply to those of us who actually have a finite budget to work with?
So, if you're a sys admin or are responsible for servers handling massive data flow like some kind of rendering farm or maybe a video on demand system, please give me your thoughts about this.
Please note: I am looking for real-world insight on this, I don't need "This would be really cool at a LAN party." I can come up with those ideas by myself. :D
Thanks and I look forward to your interesting thoughts!