[Cialug] low cost workstation

[Anthony Jeffries]

Howdy from Oregon!

At my current employer, we put an SSD in one of our Internet-facing
servers. That machine now boots from power-on in about 15 seconds with
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

I put the SSD in because said server lives on top of a mountain where
our microwave network meets DSL, and I didn't want to be replacing disk
drives in the middle of winter. I really wasn't worried about speed, but
wow....

On 12/28/11 12:01 PM, Dave Hala Jr wrote:
> I haven't done any "scientific" tests. However, the results are so
> dramatic that I'm not going to bother.
>
> I'm almost positive that this tech could be a game a changer -at least
> for me. I have a couple of dual cpu quad core servers that are 3-4 years
> old. I barely utilize the cpu's, as the disk sub system is the bottle
> neck. I'm really tempted to put a pair of SSD's drives in those machines
> and extend their life a couple of more years while getting a huge
> performance increase.
>
> I haven't been this excited about a new piece of tech for years. Seemed
> the last 3-4 years it was just incremental boring improvements on the
> same old every day stuff.
>
> :) Dave
>
> On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 12:20 -0600, Nicolai wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 09:30:15AM -0600, Dave Hala Jr wrote:
>>> I just built a new workstation, and decided to use a 120gb patriot SSD
>>> drive to host my primary os (centos 6) I'm blown away by how fast it is.
>> Nice... you've got me thinking about doing the same.
>>
>> Have you done any measured speed tests?
>>
>> Nicolai
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