Now I'm excited, the beta was flawless for me

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I'm ready for some reboots ... still waiting for this!

Did anyone here beta the hybrid-SSD with a dedicated mySQL instance where the DB size > RAM. Did you see performance gains?

I don't trust SSD which is just flash storage. Flash wears out, disks can last for decades.

That's only true for the low end consumer SSD's.

Current enterprise SSDs are at least as reliable as magnetic disks, they can take many years of constant full-speed IO.

I think that vendors have largely moved away from SLC, but it's high enough to have an effectively infinite lifespan; write 100GB a day to a 500GB SLC SSD and it'd last nearly 1,400 years. Consumer drives, for their part, with their 3,000 cycles, would only last 41 years.

If Linode were to start using SSD's it would be the cherry on top for their services, even with their NextGen upgrade the bottleneck has always been the HDD. I'm still yet to move over to them for my more demanding sites because of this. We'll see what happens. I hope ugrades happen soon as I've only got good things to say about Linode.

Fingers crossed...

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Is there any information on when this will be launched? I'm about to deploy several servers and I don't want to deploy to a standard Linode only to find out later that I should have waited for the hybrid SSD hosts.

Of course if it is possible to migrate an existing Linode to the hybrid SSD hosts then this will be less of an issue. Will it be possible to migrate existing hosts?

In the past it has always been possible to migrate. So I'm certain it will be possible this time as well.

I'm also very interested in this, hopefully we'll get some more info soon

These quotes should about answer your questions.

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EDIT: So today is Q2 2014. *fingers crossed*

Q1 has passed, will it be just postponed a little bit?

A little birdie told me something big was happening at linode mid-April

I want your birdies to be right

If my current host was the one I got moved to during the beta and the SSD thing rolls out to everyone, will I need another migration or is the basic configuration going to stay the same for me and I won't need any further migrations or... something else?

I really feel like this whole thread has become a TL;DR (for my own tastes / reading habits) so if you don't feel like answering that's fine I guess.