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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. Re:How about a policy: NO PAYWALLS! by phantomcircuit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What you mean that UC Berkeley doesn't pay for you to have access to this article?

    sucks for you