I have not worked with SSDs, though I've read all the good information that's trickling to us from Denmark. One thing that I've been wondering all along is - what about writes? That is, what about writes "wearing out" the SSD? How quickly does that happen and when it does happen, what are the symptoms? For example, does it happen after N write operations? Do writes start failing and one starts getting IOExceptions in case of Lucene and Solr?
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Karl Wettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 6:15:53 PM > Subject: Re: Hardware config for SOLR > > > 19 sep 2008 kl. 23.22 skrev Grant Ingersoll: > > > As for HDDs, people have noted some nice speedups in Lucene using > > Solid-state drives, if you can afford them. > > I've seen the average response time cut in 5-10 times when switching > to SSD. 64GB SSD is starting at EUR 200 so that can be a lot cheaper > to do replace the disk than getting more servers, given you can fit > your index on of those. > > > karl
