Dell and SSD drives

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke at gwdg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
>> I am looking at our mail servers and trying to get some disk IO
>> contentions down. I would like to know if people have used SSD's in a
>> Linux environment. I am looking at an SSD over a ramdisk for
>> persistence of storage in case of reboots. What I would like to do is
>> put in 2 SSD's into a 2950 and have them deal with the malware and
>> spam scanning directories as that seems to be the contention points.
>
> First you should maximize your RAM and try tmpfs.
> That would be faster.
>

It would be, but I have been asked to guarantee persistence over reboots.

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