Re: iSeries and SSD drives

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are ONLY doing audit journaling I doubt it would help much if at 
all.

Since you are journaling every table however, YES. This option could 
potentially help you a lot!  Worth a try I would say!

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/17/2013 12:43 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote:

> We do not have this product. We do not do High Availability but we do journal every table and have full audit journaling on. Would this still help performance?
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> I've moved.  I wasn't that impressed.  But, it may be because I found a much bigger payback.  Are you journalling?  If so, do you have Resource
>     ID     Option  Feature  Description
> 5770SS1   42       5117    HA Journal Performance
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> Adding this made a phenomenally huge difference.  Comes with usual 70 day key to try it out.  Which, if you line up the install just right will cover two month ends to test it.
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> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
> To:     "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Date:   01/17/2013 11:45 AM
> Subject:        iSeries and SSD drives
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> Has anyone moved to using SSD drives and if so have you seen any
> significant performance improvement by doing so?  We are not in need of
> additional space (running about 50%) and disk utilization (% busy) is not
> extremely high (10-15%). Wondering if a plan to migrate to SSD would be
> worthwhile.
>
>
> Mike Cunningham
> VP of Information Technology Services/CIO
> Pennsylvania College of Technology