jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Oct 12 20:49:39 CDT 2010
Yea, they are quite expensive ATM. For the right situation though they can be worth jumping in. I jumped on a 30G as a "ram disk" for my virtual machine(s). It about tripled the speed of the third party software that I was running. Cost about $120 a year or so ago when I bought it. I just bought three 120g drives for my SQL Server. I am putting my database from hell on it and it really does make a huge difference, about 3X faster in many circumstances over rotating media. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 10/12/2010 11:51 AM, Doug Steele wrote: > But don't rush out to buy one yet!: > > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/the-flash-price-crash/1121?tag=nl.e539 > > Doug > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:41 AM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > >> Rocky, >> >> >Seems to me that response time is largely data transfer to and from the >> disk - so in that case you >> wouldn't see any difference. A query that takes 20 seconds would still take >> twenty seconds, no? >> >> >>