Cristiano schrieb am 14.10.2010 um 23:10 (-0000):

> A Dell white paper about their SSD x HDD tells this:

> > Customer applications with the most random data requirements
> > will see the greatest benefit from SSD's over hard disk drives.
> > Customers with highly sequential data will see very little
> > performance benefit with SSD's over hard disk drives.

> a) Considering a dedicated server that runs only FB, is the data
> requirements more random or sequential?

If I can translate "data requirements" into "disk access", than it's
more random. And likely so for most RDBMSs. In addition, Firebird uses a
"careful writes" strategy, which, unlike a rollback log, contributes to
making disk access more random.

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Michael Ludwig