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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Enterprises aren’t into solid state yet. The capacities are way too low.


7 posted on 08/13/2013 4:56:05 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce

Enterprise customers are very much using SSD. We have a ton of it.


9 posted on 08/13/2013 6:16:25 PM PDT by phalynx
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To: ShadowAce
Enterprises aren’t into solid state yet. The capacities are way too low.

Ehh... that's SORT of true. The real prohibitive factor is cost. A 240 GB SAS SSD is twice the price of a 1 TB SAS HDD. However, if you look at companies like Simplivity, who are creating insane turnkey storage systems in a 2U form factor, you're going to see a massive effort to force the old-hand HDD adherents like EMC and Dell to go more toward SSD for speed.

You have to have a massive enterprise budget to afford an EMC disk shelf with SSDs. Hell, even tier 1 storage is around $15/Gb, and that's usually spinning disk with large amounts of cache. Using SSDs in the enterprise is best for virtualization, IMO. Fast provisioning, fast boot, and you don't have a disk bottleneck when you're running on a UCS chassis or an HP BladeCenter.

10 posted on 08/14/2013 3:04:44 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: ShadowAce

Syracuse University runs a large data center, most of it the standard HDDs. They do have a couple of racks of SSDs running as a cache for the most frequently accessed data. It was a pretty impressive setup.


11 posted on 08/14/2013 3:06:48 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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