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luser001 on April 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Redis as the primary data store

Can anybody explain if SSDs would have worked for this case?

luney on April 8, 2013 [–]

Short Answer: No

Here is the redis author's blog post about that: http://antirez.com/news/52

My guess is that SSD's would be beneficial in ensuring the Append-Only-File and RDB snapshots are faster.

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