Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46DDA1337B2F for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:52:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36239-06 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 03:52:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted 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 03631133655C for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 00:52:08 -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 EC879558039 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D9D34E3.9090909@boreham.org> Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:52:03 -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> <4D9D27D0.9040800@boreham.org> <201104070319.060633@ms14.lnh.mail.rcn.net> In-Reply-To: <201104070319.060633@ms14.lnh.mail.rcn.net> 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: 201104/67 X-Sequence-Number: 43129 On 4/6/2011 9:19 PM, gnuoytr@rcn.com wrote: > SSDs have been around for quite some time. The first that I've found is Texas Memory. Not quite 1977, but not flash either, although they've been doing so for a couple of years. Well, I built my first ram disk (which of course I thought I had invented, at the time) in 1982. But today we're seeing solid state storage seriously challenging rotating media across all applications, except at the TB and beyond scale. That's what's new.