[ale] Source for Inexpensive, Quiet, Low-Power, rackmount server?

[mike at trausch.us]

On 10/16/2012 06:45 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> BSD vs. Linux is more about footprint than raw speed.  Applications run
>> > very similarly on both, IME.  I tend to use BSD when I have very small
>> > things, or very old hardware, because it really shines there.
> Note I said SSD, not BSD.  Thinking about a Solid State Disk (versus
> spinning disk).  Any comments?
> 
> Thanks!

Just keep an eye on it.

My own experience with SSDs has been they either die very early, or they
last as long as described.  Of course, this mirrors my experience with
HDDs as well.

They are *very* fast when it comes to random I/O.  I used one as the
primary drive in my laptop for quite some time and I was very happy with
it.  I haven't put one in a production deployment yet, though, as for
those I need lots of space that is inexpensive, and SSDs don't quite fit
that bill yet.  Though they're getting closer.  While the databases that
I manage aren't huge, the file shares and email boxes I manage are
absolutely astronomical by comparison (about 400 GB each and growing all
the time).

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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