From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:27:56 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201106231725.10215.dexen.devries@gmail.com> References: <4E01F311.3060305@0x6a.com> <20110623104644.5cd888d7@wks-ddc.exosec.local> <4E0352E9.9050600@0x6a.com> <201106231725.10215.dexen.devries@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Survey: Current Fossil+venti Filesystem Topicbox-Message-UUID: f4cdef6e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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