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You've heard of SSD (Solid State Drive), a technology that should replace our hard drives in a few years.

This technology is based on flash memory and contains no mechanical element.

They have the advantages of being quick read, theoretically more reliable than conventional hard drives because they contain no mechanical parts, and their environmental and consumer electronic noise.

On the other side, they cost more expensive, the quantity of storage is limited, and problems happen sometimes ...

Matt Yonkov of Big DBA Head just achieve study performance servers database. Matt testing MySQL servers equipped with these famous SSD.

His conclusions are faithful to the characteristics of DSS, not as good hope in writing, but very effective reading (especially random access). Its use may be beneficial despite its price, if the SSD is well integrated into its hardware and software environment.

I you leaves discover conclusions Matt and different Benchmarks his blog.

Note also the part that Matt Problems encountered with its SSD. Digression: SVM Mac is also having problems with the Macbook Air Apple sent them a thing that they have never happened with apple computers .. The MacBook Air SSD tested was equipped .... But not jump to conclusions, you can leave your opinion in the comments!

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