ZFS melting under postgres...

[Darren Reed]

Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> Note that you can also get disk drives with a certain amount of NAND
>> flash built-in, but FreeBSD doesn't support that yet.
>>
>>   
> 
> They are intended for use with Vista - and have recently been found to
> be marginally more effective than a placebo (for Vista-performance).
> The speed-gains are barely distinguishable from measurement-errors...
> So, if the drives would help ZFS, it would be a big irony.
> 
> There are companies that manufacture "pure" SSDs (www.superssd.com,
> www.soliddata.com) with battery-backup.
> Unfortunately, the price-tag of these systems is still beyond reach for
> normal customers.

But prices for computer things only go in one direction: down.

It will be interesting when they're more affordable and available.

Darren