[Cialug] low cost workstation

[Josh More]

Looking at the physics alone, the way that SSD works, I would expect a
higher frequency and chattier RF created by the devices. This should
mean a lower range effect than you'd get from the RF created by
platter hard drive.

Because you'd generate more RF from SSD, I would expect the chips to
be more resilient than those found in regular hard drives.  However,
if someone is being cheap, it might only be resistant to those
specific frequencies.

-Josh

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Dave Hala Jr <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
> 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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