"enterprise" drives

[Mark J. Dulcey]

Scott R. Ehrlich wrote:
> 
> Despite capacity, what are people's thoughts on the newer solid state 
> drives?

I like the lack of moving parts for mobile use, but I'm concerned about 
the limited number of write cycles; I don't think they would work well 
for most server applications. (They might be okay for a read-mostly 
server, as web servers often are.) You have to turn off most logging or 
do logging to something other than flash (RAM disk with battery backup, 
say) and disable utime on the file systems, or else you will wear out a 
solid state drive VERY quickly.