F’ You Hard Drives!
So, I hate hard drives. I think everything about them is like a bad flashback to the 1980’s. They have something that constantly spins (stupid), which means they require lots of power (also stupid) and in turn generate lots of heat (ridiculous). All that aside, they’re by far the slowest part of any given computer!!!!!
I propose that everyone go to SSD and delete half the music/movies they don’t listen to/watch.
Also, in terms of the datacenter, I’ve been playing with these CF RAID -> SATA enclosures in our ESXi systems. They make perfect sense to me, CF cards come in various sizes from 2GB up to 32GB (or even 128GB I hear), which means that they can store all the configuration info for a VMWare ESXi server just fine. Since we use iSCSI for the SAN for these little VM environments, everything is great! The servers run cooler. Also, since the CF cards are mirrored within the enclosure, I don’t have to buy an expensive RAID card for each server, etc.
Also, I’m thinking of getting another at home for my laptop that lives next to my bed. It doesn’t need a hard drive at all, all it does is play video over the network.
Sure you take a performance hit using CF over SSD, but for ESXi the only time the CF cards are even used is when you boot, edit VM metadata, or shutdown. It does NOT affect the performance of the VM’s running off the SAN.
Now to get the SAN going with SSD… 