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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Survey: Current Fossil+venti Filesystem
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:27:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca6815e6d1673f26f697ab750cedf8c5@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106231725.10215.dexen.devries@gmail.com>

> 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.

the ahci driver fully supports hot swap (or "surprise removal"
as intel calls it).  one can easily mirror two ssds, or a ssd
and hard drive that way.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-22 13:50 Jack Norton
2011-06-22 14:02 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-22 15:13 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-03  9:07   ` Steve Simon
2011-06-23  8:46 ` David du Colombier
2011-06-23 10:03   ` Richard Miller
2011-06-23 10:35   ` Adrian Tritschler
2011-06-23 14:51   ` Jack Norton
2011-06-23 15:25     ` dexen deVries
2011-06-23 15:27       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-06-23 15:57         ` ron minnich
2011-06-23 16:19           ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23 16:28             ` ron minnich
2011-06-23 16:37               ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23 18:47               ` Bakul Shah
2011-06-24 22:44                 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-06-23 16:56           ` Charles Forsyth
2011-06-23 16:58           ` Charles Forsyth
2011-06-23 17:02         ` Jack Norton
2011-06-23 17:50           ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23 15:27     ` Charles Forsyth
2011-06-23 15:57     ` David du Colombier
2011-06-23 16:20 ` smiley

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