Hi,

We are running a little over 10 months on RAID1 SSD, with hourly backups to spindles as well. Works like a charm. (~16GB of RRD's) Performance uptake is massive.

We know it will fail eventually, but have deployed countermeasures, there's 2 disks next to the server , awaiting replacement.

Maarten
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From: Cushard Michael <mcc@us.axway.com>
Reply-To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:11 PM
To: Observium Network Observation System <observium@observium.org>
Subject: Re: [Observium] SSD for better performance


Hi,

Data is dumped to spindle nightly for backups.

As with everything, the question isn't "if" it fails, it's "when". I'll report back when it does.

Regards,

Michael