From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 21:09:15 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] OT: critical Intel design flaw In-Reply-To: <20180103234025.GA23371@thunk.org> References: <20180103134358.3F16818C098@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20180103234025.GA23371@thunk.org> Message-ID: On 1/3/2018 6:40 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > It's the 21st century, except for big data centers at Google, > Facebook, Microsoft, et. al, who uses disk drives in this day and > age? Have you actually priced "Enterprise" level SSD's lately that come with a support contract so that when they hit their end of life, the VAR will replace them? Dell 400GB SLC (Hitachi) in a Compellent, $5K, and that's with an educational discount a couple of years ago. Sure, if you're doing an IOPS/$ comparison, they shine. But for the most part, a Compellent with a few SLC SSDs, and a few MLC SSDs, still needs spinning rust to make the bulk of the storage. And this is a tiny 70TB installation mostly for VMware and Oracle DB. ak