April 6, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Hi,
We currently have a 1TB raid 10 array under 1 logical drive D:.
Finally I was heard that we need to do something since EVERYTHING (data, log, tempdb, backup) is on the same drive :doze:
I am thinking to get new disk and do a major reorganization in the files we have.
What about getting some SSD drive instead of regular hard drive. Any info? Recommendation? Suggestions?
Thanks,
April 6, 2011 at 3:40 pm
You could see performance gains if you did get an SSD. Better yet, try getting a fusionIO card. Check them out at fusionio.com[/url]. Think of an SSD on steroids and that is what you get with a FUSION-IO card.
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April 6, 2011 at 11:54 pm
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You could see performance gains if you did get an SSD. Better yet, try getting a fusionIO card. Check them out at fusionio.com[/url]. Think of an SSD on steroids and that is what you get with a FUSION-IO card.
Holy... <gasp gasp gasp>
If those specs are even remotely accurate... oh. my. god. Daddy wants.
Odd, they don't say how much storage is on the Octal. Looks like the IoDrive Duo costs about 7.5k/320 gigs. If that's as fast as they claim, a 640 might handle everything my tempdbs ever needed to do for the rest of eternity. Looks like Tweaktown did some benchmarking on it.
I don't know if I should shout with joy, or cry.
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April 6, 2011 at 11:58 pm
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You could see performance gains if you did get an SSD. Better yet, try getting a fusionIO card. Check them out at fusionio.com[/url]. Think of an SSD on steroids and that is what you get with a FUSION-IO card.Holy... <gasp gasp gasp>
If those specs are even remotely accurate... oh. my. god. Daddy wants.
Odd, they don't say how much storage is on the Octal. Looks like the IoDrive Duo costs about 7.5k/320 gigs. If that's as fast as they claim, a 640 might handle everything my tempdbs ever needed to do for the rest of eternity. Looks like Tweaktown did some benchmarking on it.
I don't know if I should shout with joy, or cry.
I believe it is 1TB on the Octal.
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April 7, 2011 at 5:31 am
Even if you get a faster drive, you're going to realize the most improvement by moving stuff to separate drives. Even with SSD or something else, you will experience queuing (albeit really, really fast queues). Introducing more AND faster drives will be a huge win.
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April 8, 2011 at 9:40 am
At my previous gig, we investigated the FusionIO cards. The 320GB card is the fastest of the 4, so we got the demo of 2 320GB cards.
Result: holy freaking God. The specs that talk about it being 1,000 TIMES faster are correct.
Everyone was happy until the owner got the quote. The company is still using regular frisbee HDDs.
April 8, 2011 at 10:42 am
jgoeson (4/8/2011)
At my previous gig, we investigated the FusionIO cards. The 320GB card is the fastest of the 4, so we got the demo of 2 320GB cards.Result: holy freaking God. The specs that talk about it being 1,000 TIMES faster are correct.
Everyone was happy until the owner got the quote. The company is still using regular frisbee HDDs.
That is the big problem. Upfront cost is hard to swallow. But on the flipside, lower failure rate, faster processing, and lower energy consumption are the intangibles that make it a great choice.
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April 8, 2011 at 11:49 am
Here is another option that I just found.
http://www.ramsan.com/products/77
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April 8, 2011 at 11:56 am
Even better:
http://www.ramsan.com/products/73
14million IOPS
140 TB
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