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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive performance testing?

2009-07-23 07:16:47
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive performance testing?
From: "James Harper" <james.harper AT bendigoit.com DOT au>
To: "Alan Brown" <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>, "Bob Hetzel" <beh AT case DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:12:01 +1000
> 
> So far the only units which appear to be worthwhile for spool use are
> Samsung and Intel's enterprise SSDs with Intel having a clear
performance
> edge over time.
> 
> I suspect that the sheer performance gains from zero seek time would
> far outweigh any slowdown seen in SSDs.
> 

I'd hazard a guess that for spooling, raw throughput is more important
than random access seek time, unless you spool is fragmented.

James

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