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MS Researchers Call Moving Server Storage To SSDs a Bad Idea

Posted by timothy on from the professor-if-these-projections-are-accurate dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As an IT administrator did you ever think of replacing disks by SSDs? Or using SSDs as an intermediate caching layer? A recent paper by Microsoft researchers provides detailed cost/benefit analysis for several real workloads. The conclusion is that, for a range of typical enterprise workloads, using SSDs makes no sense in the short to medium future. Their price needs to decrease by 3-3000 times for them to make sense. Note that this paper has nothing to do with laptop workloads, for which SSDs probably make more sense (due to SSDs' ruggedness)."

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  1. How about a policy: NO PAYWALLS! by nweaver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is an ACM article behind a paywall.

    How about a slashdot policy of not linking to articles behind paywalls?

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  2. Paid ACM subscription by eples · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Their price needs to decrease by 3-3000 times for them to make sense.

    Hm. I was thinking the same thing about the ACM subscription.

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  3. they already cost less per gig than some SAS drive by hxnwix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SSD is already cheaper per gig than some SAS drives. Also, 3-3000 times? What the hell sort of estimate is that?

  4. Re:they already cost less per gig than some SAS dr by Larry+Clotter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's called "pulling numbers out of your ass".