Wikidot.com database abandons spinning rust for Intel X-25 SSDs

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The Wikidot.com blog reported today that "Wikidot.com's primary database sits on a RAID cluster of top-end Intel solid-state memory (SSD) drives. These are expensive but much faster than spinning rust, and much more reliable. The SSDs are Intel X25-E Extreme, one of the fastest SSD drives out there. We're seeing a 7x improvement in database response time, and a 3x improvement in page rendering time."

The Wikidot team completed the migration at about 11:30 CET on 28 October 2009 with no downtime or service interruption. While the primary database now runs on pure silicon SSDs, the several realtime backups still run on normal fast SAS hard drives.