[Cialug] SDD drives (again)

[Dave Hala Jr]

Its the seek time. Personally, I think its easier to manage the VM if
everything is contained (for lack of a better word) in one container.


On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 19:08 -0500, Thomas Kula wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:35:42PM -0600, Dave Hala Jr wrote:
> 
> > If I can double the performance of the mysql server during .05% of the
> > by time by adding a sata II SSD drive, it would be worthwhile for me to
> > spend a little cash on a small (120gb) Partriot SSD drive and launch the
> > sql server VM from that drive.
> > 
> > The question is, would I notice a large  performance improvement even
> > with the sata II interface?
> 
> What exactly is the bottleneck? Is it MB/s or IOPs/s? Is seek time
> killing you? Is the bottleneck at your controller (meaning that
> even if the SSD drive would help the controller would still 
> limit you)?
> 
> That said, you probably don't need to launch the sql server VM from
> the SSD drive, just put the sql server database files on it.
>