RE: SSDs Was: IBM i on Power: Was Classes for IBMi/iSeries?

The price will come down.

We design a lot of applications around relatively slower hard drives (caching, blocking, sequential processes, memory pools, etc). Getting rid of that constraint has some deep implications for design.

I recently ran across a presentation on PostgreSQL performance. The presenter recommended not putting other applications (logging and such) on the server so the disk arms would stay on the database. That problem goes away with SSDs.

Paul Morgan

Principal Programmer Analyst
IT Supply Chain/Replenishment

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Subject: SSDs Was: IBM i on Power: Was Classes for IBMi/iSeries?

SSDs are cool but we found them expensive and what little benefit we got
from them was overshadowed by money spent elsewhere on the machine.


Rob Berendt