June 19, 2013

Post: Intel 320 SSD random write performance

I have posted results for Intel 320 SSD on our ssdperformanceblog.com blog. To not duplicate content, there is link on original post:http://www.ssdperformanceblog.com/2011/06/intel-320-ssd-random-write-performance/ Follow my twitter @VadimTk for further results.

Comment: 5.0.83-build17 Percona binaries

… as know lots of people want to try out the intel SSD‘s, some simple config changes I’d make to get… the database: 1) Update to the latest firmware (http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17485) 2) Hard… x8 variants. We get the best results using the standard intel host controller which has 6 SATA ports. 4) Switch on…

Post: L2 cache for MySQL

The idea to use SSD/Flash as a cache is not new, and there are … used data on RAID data on SSD (Intel SSD 910) data on RAID with L2 cache on Intel SSD 910, and size of cache is…

Comment: RAID vs SSD vs FusionIO

… concerns. For example how much storage can you get with Intel SSDs ? RAID5 from 8 64G drives will give you 448G of… 10K RPMs you can get about 5x space as with Intel drives if space is a concern. It would be very… raw IO, filesystems as well as MySQL scale with multiple Intel SSD drives of FusionIO cards. I have a feeling it is…

Post: Percona Server vs MySQL on Intel 320 SSD

….3.4 The initial benchmark is described in Benchmarks of Intel 320 SSD 600GB, and the result for MySQL 5.5.20… neighbor pages and the configuration to provide better experience on SSD is : innodb_flush_neighbor_pages = 0 innodb_adaptive_flushing_method…

Post: RAID vs SSD vs FusionIO

… to setup all three devices (RAID was on board; Intel X25-E SSD connected to HighPoint controller, FusionIO card) on our working… results are here and average results: RAID10 – 7439.850 TPM SSD – 10681.050 TPM FusionIO – 17372.250 TPM However what should… (see my post http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/03/02/ssd-xfs-lvm-fsync-write-cache-barrier-and-lost-transactions/). While…

Comment: Redis Benchmarks on FusionIO (Round 1)

… what SSDs are fast for. SSDs (and I unclude FusionIO here) are fast for random reads and writes. Sequential Reads single Intel SSD will… RAID with few hard drives. Writes are more expensive for SSDs so for Sequential Writes standard hard drives are often the… FusionIO etc have some DRAM with battery or capacitors but SSD do not get the leverage here against legacy hard drives…

Comment: Intel SSD 910 in tpcc-mysql benchmark

Andy, I am not totally sure, however document http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/ssd/pdfs/Intel-SSD-910-Series_ProdSpec.pdf says that card can return SMART attribute “Volatile Memory Backup failure” which corresponds to broken capacitor. So I guess it has.

Comment: Intel 520 SSD in MySQL sysbench oltp benchmark

Andy, Actually it appears that 520 is noticeable faster then 320. You can get an idea comparing http://www.ssdperformanceblog.com/2011/07/intel-320-ssd-read-performance/ http://www.ssdperformanceblog.com/2012/05/testing-intel-ssd-520/ RAID10 is 8 15k SAS with BBU, that is correct.

Comment: FlashCache: more benchmarks

@Evan: Just noticed this from your other page on the subject (http://evanjones.ca/intel-ssd-durability.html). ” The good news is that I was able to test Intel‘s “enterprise” SSD (X25-E), and it works as expected.” Just what I wanted to hear :)