[ale] Source for Inexpensive, Quiet, Low-Power, rackmount server?

[mike at trausch.us (Michael Trausch)]

You can use a log structure file system to prevent that...
On Oct 16, 2012 6:55 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> On 10/16/2012 15:45, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> > Note I said SSD, not BSD.  Thinking about a Solid State Disk (versus
> > spinning disk).  Any comments?
>
> Save the cash and stick with a spinning disk.  The I/O requirements on
> MySQL aren't huge so there's very little speed-up from going SSD versus
> spinning disk.  On the other hand, the short lifespan of the SSD will
> give you heartburn later as the storage cells get used and abused by the
> maintenance on the indicies and other housekeeping (true for any DB).
>
> I've actually got one WinXP system running MySQL (WAMP - don't ask, I'm
> still working on creating a LAMP system to replace it) with only 2 GB of
> RAM and there aren't any performance hits that I've seen to MySQL.  It's
> actually my primary desktop machine at work so plenty of other things
> are running on it at the same time and yet I can do a big query from the
> command line and get snappy return data (plus a swamped buffer).
>
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