From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1@burntmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Making the most of memory?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:45:07 -0600
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On Jan 23, 2008 1:57 PM, Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1@burntmail.com> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > I assume you're talking about solid state drives? They have their
> > uses, but for most use cases, having plenty of RAM in your server will
> > be a better way to spend your money. For certain high throughput,
> > relatively small databases (i.e. transactional work) the SSD can be
> > quite useful.
>
> Unless somebody has changes some physics recently, I'm not understanding
> the recent discussions of SSD in the general press. Flash has a limited
> number of writes before it becomes unreliable. On good quality consumer
Actually, I was referring to all SSD systems, some of which are based
on flash memory, some on DRAM, sometimes backed by hard drives.
There's always a use case for a given piece of tech.
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