Subject: Re: Testing FusionIO
From: Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info>
To: Justin Pitts <justinpitts@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:18:20 -0400
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On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 09:11 -0400, Justin Pitts wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Brad Nicholson wrote:
> 
> > I've been hearing bad things from some folks about the quality of the
> > FusionIO drives from a durability standpoint.
> 
> Can you be more specific about that? Durability over what time frame? How many devices in the sample set? How did FusionIO deal with the issue?

I didn't get any specifics - as we are looking at other products.  It
did center around how FusionIO did wear-leveling though. 
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Brad Nicholson  416-673-4106
Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.