Personally, I think the benefits of the FusionIO are no longer as big a deal since regular SSDs have really come a long way in terms of cost and reliability, not sure that the niche the FusionIO cards initially filled has remained one that really needs to be filled as much as before, and there are really so few people who can actually benefit from them in the first place in my opinion.
Plus, there is always the lack of data redundancy that has always bothered me with them, sort of like putting your DB and system on a RAID0.
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 4:03 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT - Fusion IO
There's been a lot of prior discussion on this topic. I suggest searching the forum as well to gather further insight.
I just recently went down this road and I opted to NOT install the FusionIO card. We are about a 30-user company, progress db size is <5GB and I did some thorough testing in my environment with a FusionIO card, Enterprise-grade SATA3 SSD drives and regular old enterprise-grade spindle drives at 15K RPM. While the FusionIO card proved to be the fastest in the bunch, with the SSD's a close second, the 15K SATA3 spindle drives were an obvious third.
I ended up going with the "old-school" spindle drives in a RAID10 config. If the FusionIO card was a "Ten" on a 1-to-10-scale, the SSD's were like 9.8 and my spindles were still at 9.5. What I'm trying to convey is, yes, FusionIO is unbeatable. But for the price, that extra $10,000 that I would have spent on the server with the FusionIO was just not justifiable in my environment. The little-tiny-insignificant performance increase (for me) just wasn't worth it. My new server has 64GB of RAM on WinServer2008R2 Enterprise, 8 600GB 15KRPM drives in RAID 10 yielding about 2.4TB of space on "D:". My C: drive/OS has two SSD's (small) mirrored. Dual Xeon 2620's. I'm very satisfied with the performance.
We are currently researching hardware configurations for a Version 10 server. Based on Epicor advise we are looking into Fusion IO cards to support the storage of our database. Coming from a Progress configuration, we have never felt the need for this type of high end storage. Can anyone advise which model they would advise and how they configured it? Our current Progress database is 14MB in size. We expect to be running Windows Server 2012 and SQL 2012.
Thanks in advance,
Keith Mailloux
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