RE: Solid State Disks for Databases

From: Goulet, Dick <DGoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:48:08 -0400
Message-ID: <4001DEAF7DF9BD498B58B45051FBEA6502D437AB@25exch1.vicorpower.vicr.com>

Hemant,

Yes they appear to be much faster than normal disks, but they are also substantially, like a factor of 3 or 4 times, more expensive as well. We use EMC Symetrix systems and right now we can get 72GB mirrored for about $5,000. Soliddata's E75 is roughly the same price and only has 2GB of space.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Hemant K Chitale Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 6:20 PM To: Oracle-L
Subject: Solid State Disks for Databases

Has anyone used or tested Solid State Disks for Databases ?

http://www.soliddata.com/cgi-bin/whitepaper.asp?wp=13

The paper seems to indicate that Solid State Disks are now well on the way
to acceptance.
I have been asked to consider if we should look at this technology for High
I/O databases
{first identify databases with very high I/O rates}.

Hemant K Chitale
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital

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