Re: [tlug] Making better use of SSDs?

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 05/29/2012 08:27 AM, Nava Whiteford wrote:
> You'll obviously get some benefit from using SSDs for Bioinformatics, but I know of no Bioinformatics tools that currently take advantage of the constant time random access offered by SSDs.
>
> For example, the alignment tools I know of tend to create reference indexes in memory, and align reads sequentially. So your reference genome and reads both get read sequentially.

What about buying a stack of small ssd's and throwing them all on a 
raid0.  If this is just scratch space, and you have a backup of the 
original data then the small risk of loosing a drive may be acceptable 
for the extra io you will gain.

Edward