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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/01/2013 10:09 AM, Tom Hughes
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5180CDA4.9070109@compton.nu" type="cite">On
01/05/13 08:40, Sarah Hoffmann wrote:
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<br>
<blockquote type="cite">My knowledge on the hardware side is
rather limited. Just take into
<br>
account that Nominatim is doing quite a bit of writing when in
minutely
<br>
update mode and that you will need to start from scratch if the
<br>
data on the SSD is lost.
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<br>
Our server is using Crucial RealSSD C300 drives, which I think are
at the enterprise end of the market.
<br>
<br>
Each is currently showing 8% of write capacity used after
something like 15 months of active use. I'm not sure if they were
used somewhere else before though as they are showing just under
20,000 hours powered on (about 2 years 3 months) but we've only
had our Nominatim server up and running again since early last
year.
<br>
<br>
Tom
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For this you probably want the OCZ vector. It has very good specs.<br>
<br>
If you're bold and like to live on the edge but care about
bandwidth, I would recommend going with PCI-e SSD cards. They beat
the living daylights out of their SATA brothers and sisters on
performance.<br>
<br>
Take a look at the specs from the Revodrive 3 X2
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<a href="http://ocz.com/consumer/revodrive-3-x2-pcie-ssd">http://ocz.com/consumer/revodrive-3-x2-pcie-ssd</a>
There is one small caveat, they don't promote it for linux, in fact
they don't mention it their OS support list, there's a reason too,
this little gem smacks the competition and they have a product
position issue since it's so insanely cheap for what you get.<br>
<br>
But a well known internaut and gentoo contributer, robat2 on the OCZ
forums, has looked at it and now there is kernel support available.
So it will work. And on top, TRIM support is in the latest distro's
so in fact, linux is probably the only OS that fully supports this
feature, very important for you'r drive to stay healthy. (you'll
end up with 4 different drives under linux).<br>
<br>
If you buy 2 OCZ vector's and put them in raid0 it might come close
to what the Revodrive 3 can. There are some things that are a tad
faster on the Vector as compaired to the Revodrive, but
price/performance I don't think anything comes close to it.<br>
<br>
So pay attention to the PCI-e versions of your SSD's. More of those
are hitting the markets nowadays.<br>
<br>
Glenn<br>
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