Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-state Drive

[george]

Thaivisa is looking into changing our current hard disks for our MySQL server to 2 x 64GB Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive

http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm

Anyone having experience in running Intel X25 discs on a very busy MySQL server?

[spacemunk]

i say go for it.

i got a group of friends running a server on a load of them in singapore.

so far loading times and such have been really good.

if u like u can contact the admins on the Forums.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/

[Tywais]

Can you buy an extra one for me? I've been looking into SSDs for a while now for a potential system upgrade but the E class is a bit out of my budget range.

In case you haven't read these reviews:

Tom's Hardware

Computerworld

[monty]

Would the maximum write cycles SSD's have not be a worry?

I know it is a moot point on regular PC's, due to the fact they are more idle then actually working during any 24 hour day (resulting in 20+ years life expectancy), but running a high volume database on them 24/7 creates a whole different usage pattern!

[monty]

Better answer it myself after reading some articles

Apparently the lifetime is much less of an issue with the single level cell flash memory (probably why it's so bleeding expensive!), compared to the consumer ssd's which use multi level cell memory...

[Crossy]

How about a couple of these (or a more recent version) instead http://techreport.com/articles.x/16255

Here http://www.acard.com/english/fb0101.jsp?ty...p;type1_idno=13

[sorensen]

Can the whole of Thaivisa really fit on 2 x 64 GB of disk space?

I know nothing about servers, so sorry if it is a stupid question.

[nikster]

Can the whole of Thaivisa really fit on 2 x 64 GB of disk space?

I know nothing about servers, so sorry if it is a stupid question.

Easily. Server HDs need to be fast for the most part, unless you're YouTube you don't have high storage requirements.

The E class of SSDs is for server use, should work very well indeed. I have an X-25M, it's very fast, and very good.