Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693F81337BDF for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:02:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80945-07 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 03:02:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:06:20.686022 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from skunk.mtbrook.bozemanpass.com (skunk.mtbrook.bozemanpass.com [69.145.82.195]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56301337BDE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:02:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [172.21.129.219] (unknown [63.164.30.162]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skunk.mtbrook.bozemanpass.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430ED558039 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D9D27D0.9040800@boreham.org> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:56:16 -0600 From: David Boreham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Intel SSDs that may not suck References: <4D90EDB6.2080609@2ndQuadrant.com> <4D9A6FB6.2000702@2ndQuadrant.com> <4D9D1FC3.4020207@2ndQuadrant.com> In-Reply-To: <4D9D1FC3.4020207@2ndQuadrant.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201104/65 X-Sequence-Number: 43127 Had to say a quick thanks to Greg and the others who have posted detailed test results on SSDs here. For those of us watching for the inflection point where we can begin the transition from mechanical to solid state storage, this data and experience is invaluable. Thanks for sharing it. A short story while I'm posting : my Dad taught electronics engineering and would often visit the local factories with groups of students. I remember in particular after a visit to a disk drive manufacturer (Burroughs), in 1977 he came home telling me that he'd asked the plant manager what their plan was once solid state storage made their products obsolete. The manager looked at him like he was form another planet... So I've been waiting patiently 34 years for this hopefully soon-to-arrive moment ;)