Yeah, solid state disks are nice, but extremely expensive. Looking at the BiTMICRO solid state scsi drives, they have access times of 33-48 usec (3.3 x 10^-5 seconds) vs a 15k drive of 5.6 ms (5.6 x 10^-3 seconds). The sustained transfer rates (34MB/s - 200MB/s) are pretty nice too.
But with applications like mail servers, it's often cheaper to just distribute the load to multiple servers. This also gives you redundancy which is always a nice thing.
Adrian
But with applications like mail servers, it's often cheaper to just distribute the load to multiple servers. This also gives you redundancy which is always a nice thing.
Adrian
