By CUBRID
via cubrid.org
Published: Jan 30 2012 / 03:20
SSD is faster than HDD. Period. Everyone knows this. Consequently many users think that switching from HDD to SSD will dramatically improve the performance of their database system. Senior Engineer from CUBRID Database Development Team explains in details why switching to SSD is not the first thing you need to do. In this blog the author explains the inner world of HDD and SSD, and how they are utilized in DBMS. Additionally, a qualitative test results are provided to prove the suggestions of the author. At the end of the article the author provides a list of recommended actions to perform before switching to SSD.
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Comments
Christopher Wong replied ago:
It's basically saying if you allocate enough RAM to keep everything in memory, then the performance of HDD vs SSD is no longer important. That's not very interesting.
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