MySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives

[ripper]

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[Polkadot]

Does this signal a break through in Solid State Devices? This announcement is a major step in high tech solutions. Soon, our HDDs may go into the same drawer with our slide rules.

[hellnoire]

I, for one, have been dying to get a SSD for my server AND for my laptop, but until they come in 512 Gig and 1 Tera, at a GOOD cost (read: $100 or less), I'm not touching them.

[safeguy]

Ummm, 2 questions are popping on my mind now.

1. Is this a good or bad decision by MySpace?
2. Is it really worth the replacement?

[hellnoire]

It's a good choice for them. and yeah, it would be worth the investment... in time.

[Polkadot]

With servers as large as theirs must be, the speed increase will be enormous. Power usage (HDDs and cooling) will greatly be greatly reduced. The cost effectiveness of it...ahrg! It will pay for itself over time, but what will be the 'start up' cost? Maybe if you/I could buy petabytes, the cost (per) would certainly go down. A few years down the line, we will all be able to afford it...maybe they are looking at it as "we can buy enough now, and our power costs will pay for themselves until it becomes mainstream...by then, we will be ready to upgrade." They certainly have 'buying power'.

EDIT: I had not realized that the have actually become price-effective in operations that large. Sign of the times. Soon they will become viable options for the rest of us...I remember when a 5Meg HDD was a $700 option on a PC!