Hi, I've been thinking about moving our outbound mail relay queue and deploying a NetApp. However I came across solid state disks.
I found that in terms of SCSI based solid state drives Curtis makes the best and most affordable stuff in the 1G-8GB size. It has SCA interfaces and dimmesions of a SCSI disk that will fit into a hot swap bay. These start at around US$2000 and seem to max out at 10,000 transactions per second.
Given that our mail queue back log does not grow above 100MB I am thinking of getting Cenetek's Rocket Drive with 1GB, this is a PCI board that has its own external power and hooks to your UPS.
A magazine benchmarked them to 30,000 transactions per second at US$1000 it seems like a bargain to me. Centaket rate them at 100K transactions per second. In its price range feature performance it seems to have a very clearly defined niche. It also beats ram drives as it does not require the machines CPU to do the IO.
Anyway I just want to know if any of you guys are using these to boost your servers and have any opinions or advice.
Regards, Maren.
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