hardware for MySQL DB

[feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Eugene Gorelik wrote:

> I am curious, what kind of hardware do people use to run MySQL DB ?

We use very ordinary consumer grade hardware.

>
> Have anyone tried running MySQL on solid state drives ?

We have been doing this for about 2 years, no problems so far. The drive 
is just a consumer grade thumb drive, and the database isn't super-busy, 
but it gets a few thousand record updates each day.

If you are worried about limited write lifetime, I think getting a larger 
drive will mitigate that risk, since writes will be spread over more 
sectors.

>
> How does MySQL scales when adding more CPUs or RAM ?
>
>

don't know.

Daniel Feenberg
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> Thanks,
>
> -Eugene.
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