Re: Tip from mr. D.K. Burleson

On 27 Sept., 11:47, Helma <helma.vi..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello fellow DBA's,
>
> I've read a article from Burleson where he's an enthusiast about solid
> state disks:
>
> " It's important for all Oracle professionals to learn about solid-
> state disk to understand how I/O bottlenecks will soon become a thing
> of the past. "
>
> and
>
> "The ancient platter-based disks from the 1960's will soon join paper
> tape and punched cards in the annals of IT history. "
>
> " In my reproducible benchmarks of SSD vs. platter disks, the response
> time benefits of using SSD with Oracle are amazing with blistering
> speeds that result in up to a 300x speed improvement. "
>
> ( full read athttp://www.dba-oracle.com/t_flash_disk_drives_ssd_ram_san.htm
> )
>
> He doesn't mention any drawback to this SSD. Does anyone here has
> experience with this SSD , and is it as big as mr Burleson says?
>
> TIA,
> Helma

See http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/09-2005/threads.html#01024 check thread Solid State Disks for Databases And especially look at answer by Cary Millsap.

Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu Received on Thu Sep 27 2007 - 08:12:37 CDT