Daily Archives: February 22, 2008

Final Thoughts on SSD and MySQL AKA Battleship Spinn3r 1

I need to give it a bit more thought but it looks like we’re going forward with deploying Spinn3r on SSD. Specifically, machines with 3 SSDs on Linux software RAID. The performance of SSDs is nothing short of astounding. When tuned correctly these drives were nearly 10x the performance of the same box running RAID. [...]