May 22, 2012

Post: Testing Intel SSD 520

Following my previous benchmarks of SATA SSD cards I got Intel SSD 520 240GB into my hands. In this post I show… to understand it better. If you are interested more in SSD and MySQL questions – I will be giving a webinary “MySQL and SSD” on May-9. It will be the same as my…

Post: Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 - not all SSD created equal

… pricing point our customers are looking for cheaper alternatives. SATA SSD is an options. There is many products based on MLC… results for Intel 320). If you are interested more in SSD and MySQL questions – I will be giving a webinary “MySQL and SSD” on May-9. It will be the same as my…

Post: Testing STEC SSD MACH16 200GB SLC

… 4 STEC MACH16 cards. If you are interested more in SSD and MySQL questions – I will be giving a webinary “MySQL and SSD” on May-9. It will be the same as my…

Post: Webinar: MySQL and SSD

Just as a reminder – tomorrow, May-9, 2012, at 11am PDT I will be giving a free webinar “MySQL and SSD“. This is the same talk I gave on Percona Live MySQL Conference, so if you were there – you probably will find nothing new. Otherwise, you are welcome to join!

Post: Testing Virident FlashMAX 1400

I still continue to run benchmarks of different SSD cards. This time I show numbers for Virident FlashMAX 1400. This is a MLC PCIe SSD device. There are couple notes on these results. First, this…

Post: Testing Fusion-io ioDrive

… series of posts on testing different SSD, in my last post I mentioned that SATA SSD performance is getting closer to PCIe…

Comment: Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 - not all SSD created equal

Samsung 830 SSD‘s GC differs from Intel 320 series AFAIK. Intel 320 does active GC while Samsung 830s do idle GC. Have you tested Samsung 830 SSD with over provisioning ? formated at 100GB,120GB, 200GB, and 240GB capacities ?

Comment: Testing Intel SSD 520

…://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-520-tech-brief.html That may explain why do we…

Comment: FlashCache: first experiments

…* are placed on separate RAID partition ( not on FlashCache or SSD)” Why did you exclude ibdata1 from flashcache ? I think flashcache…

Comment: Testing Intel SSD 520

Curious .. how are people deploying these SSDs on DB servers? Are they behind a regular raid controller? Or using software RAID? Or simply straight up direct /dev/sdx? AD