Pure SSD VDS

[soja]

Would be nice to see, I know you guys would need to build machines specifically for this, so it works out and you can fit as many on the hardware in there, but I would love to see this. Maybe 10GB SSD space per core? Plenty for a game server per core. Even if you have to do it unmanaged only, if you do a trial run with a machine do it in chicago please .

[kraze]

Interesting idea, but I could see that being pretty expensive. We also haven't see any demand for this which hasn't been satisfied by our current SSD options for unmanaged machines.

[soja]

Yeah the bonus SSD space is pretty cheap as-is I suppose. Ah well, if you find a way to do it while keeping costs under control, I would be interested

[Edge100x]

This would be really pricey for us, and we'd have to pass that on to customers, so it'd be tough. It would also mean separating those customers from others (limiting our options for server moves and such). Maybe after SSD prices come down a bit

[DaRcCrysys]

Just to throw my two cents into the jar here... I agree on both ends, I would love to see servers running SSD vice platter based drive arrays.. But I also understand the overhead in costs that would be generated from this setup. NFO has the lowest costs of any hosting company I have seen to date, while providing some of the highest rated customer support from a very knowledgeable, top of the line staff!

Maybe SSD will slowly make it's way into the industry standard as costs are lowered, and more companies develop the technology, and we will see this reflect on the options provided to us. Until then, SPIN PLATTER SPIN!

[TacTicToe]

From what I understand, as SSD degrades in quality overt time and use. I would think running a game server on something like that would be setting off the datacenter smoke alarms in not time.

Why not just go to 10K RPM Sata drives?

[kraze]

From what I understand, as SSD degrades in quality overt time and use. I would think running a game server on something like that would be setting off the datacenter smoke alarms in not time.

Why not just go to 10K RPM Sata drives?

I imagine it does, but even then the degrading in quality wouldn't be a big deal since they're so fast and no applications we run would stress them.

10K RPM drives never really caught on. In my opinion the cost vs performance just wasn't there.

[Edge100x]

We used 10k SATA drives and 15k SAS drives >5 years ago. They were OK, but the 10k SATA drives failed at a high rate and had low capacity for the price, with no noticeable performance benefit when it came to most games (most game servers are not very demanding on the disk).

The load-leveling in Intel drives is very good and there isn't a whole lot of performance degradation over time, thankfully.

[soja]

From what I understand, as SSD degrades in quality overt time and use. I would think running a game server on something like that would be setting off the datacenter smoke alarms in not time.

Why not just go to 10K RPM Sata drives?

I can't give a source for this, but Intel tests their drives with an unrealistic load for a very long time, and they warranty their SSDs for something crazy like 5 years. I would expect an Intel enterprise SSD ran under normal conditions in a game server or VDS environment to last easily 8 years, much longer than a mechanical equivalent. Intel also has load balancing as John mentioned to make sure the NAND doesn't get worn out fast(it will write to empty/unused flash before rewriting flash just used).