Dell and SSD drives

[Matthew Geier]

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.
>
>   
 Arn't those SSD units based on flash memory ?. A good solid write load, 
like for example a mail spool, would make them have a rather short life 
before flash cell failure.

 Or am I wrong and those SSD modules actually battery backed RAM ?, 
getting speed and write cycles with out the 'wear' that flash has.



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