On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Arthur A. Person wrote:
Gilbert,
Yes... it's a great way to speed things up and save wear-and-tear on a disk
if your queue is relatively small and you have enough memory. The primary
disadvantage is if you reboot you lose everything in the queue, which is a
problem for relay sites and a potential problem for the local system if the
decoders are running behind in queue processing.
Since I have multiple machines, I avoid that problem by rebooting one
machine at a time, and try to do it in low-volume hours.
The solid state drives, I have been told, have a nasty habit of going out
on you gradually after about 300,000 writes (which ain't much when you
have something like NOAAport). Also, right now they're about 15
times more expensive than standard hard drives, have much lower capacity
than hard drives, and as I see on Wikipedia, really bad things can happen
if your power goes out while it's running, even worse than with a hard
drive. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive
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