[Cialug] low cost workstation

[Dave Hala Jr]

I hadn't considered if an SSD was more susceptible to RF or not. I
wonder if it is a concern or not.  I know there a lots of devices in
cell tower sites with unshielded hard drives.

Have you had a high failure rate on with mechanical hard drives?

On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 13:50 -0800, Anthony Jeffries wrote:
> 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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