From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4E0371A3.4090802@0x6a.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:02:27 -0500 From: Jack Norton User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <4E01F311.3060305@0x6a.com> <20110623104644.5cd888d7@wks-ddc.exosec.local> <4E0352E9.9050600@0x6a.com> <201106231725.10215.dexen.devries@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Survey: Current Fossil+venti Filesystem Topicbox-Message-UUID: f519e3ec-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 erik quanstrom wrote: >> On the other hand, if you can burn $$$, there are enterprisey SSDs based on >> SLC Flash, built in form of PCIE cards, should be quite reliable. >> > > i think the pcie form factor for a hard drive is a trap. > pcie is not easily hot swappable, and more expensive > than a number of smaller devices that can be mirrored, > thus not leading to an expensive single point of failure. > - erik > Now that you mention pcie drives, has anyone used those little mini-pcie ssd's that fit on some atom motherboards? Might be a convenient location for fossil (what are they like 16GB?). That is if they are supported. I've never even been near one. Does it get attached to the disk controller via sata (by way of magic)? Or does it do something completely different that I cannot fathom? Those I wouldn't consider 'a trap' as they have a bright future on laptop motherboards and hot swap isn't even a useful feature in that case. -jack