On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Henry C. <henka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When the super-fast SSD-based machine fails, switching to a (slower) standard
hard-drive based machine provides continuity and buys time while we get the
primary machine back online.
The question you should ask yourself is: can my business run at needed capacity on the slower spinning media? Our answer was "no", so we ended up with a second SSD array for the backup server as well. It was *still* totally worth the metric gazillion dollars that they cost.
