On 29-Nov-10 11:56, Ted Unangst wrote:
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> buying a new SSD to replace your "burned out" one every year is still
> cheaper than building a 15k sas drive raid set with equivalent
> performance.
>

Yes, but I that kind of performance is over-kill for a mail server. 
Unless you are pushing well over 1 gb/s for mail, you don't need 
anything more than just a cheap 80 Gig 7.2k SATA II disk, or a couple in 
RAID.  And if you are pushing that much mail, you should just CARP a 
couple MTAs together.

The only time I've seen SSDs worth the price is in rough service 
equipment and database servers getting hit with over a hundred thousand 
(read) queries a minute.  Most SSDs are slower for writing than their 
whirly counter-parts.

-Christopher Ahrens