… look into another options if your load requires sequential writes (e.g. like I put InnoDB transactional logs on rotation based…, etc. I suggest to run sysbench fileio or similar (i.e. iozone) to check if you get performance you expect In…”remove and insert cards, while for FusionIO, which put into PCI-E bus, you need to shutdown server to replace it
Post: Testing Intel® SSD 910
September 4, 2012 By 2 Comments
Intel came on PCI-e SSD market with their Intel SSD 910 card. With a … IO I follow scripts I used for other reviews, i.e. Testing Intel SSD 520 First results are for asynchronous writes…
Post: Review of Virident FlashMAX MLC cards
November 10, 2011 By 14 Comments
… a long time (e.g. http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/06/15/virident-tachion-new-player-on-flash-pci-e-cards-market/). They…
Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… example, Virident worked with Percona to test and validate their PCI-E flash cards, and Fusion-IO sent us free cards to…, or through direct interaction between the vendor and the consumer, e.g. a sales call. However, we do not play a…
Post: Thank you for joining us at Percona Live, NYC 2012
October 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
… with real time analytics. FusionIO have been showing high performance PCI-E Flash storage cards, one of the highest performing and most…
Comment: Intel 320 SSD read performance
July 30, 2011 By 11 Comments
… you should consider price also. For many users $10K+ for PCI-E cards is out of budget range, while 300-500$ for…
Comment: Intel 320 SSD read performance
July 29, 2011 By 11 Comments
Vadim, You mention this as an alternative to PCI-E cards. How do they compare, performance-wise, to these SSDs?
Post: Percona Server Scales Vertically with Virident tachIOn Drives
February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… explains how to stop sharding and start scaling vertically with PCI-E flash drives, specifically the Virident tachIOn drive, which offers consistent…
Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 23, 2011 By 55 Comments
Patrick, Yes… when you’re looking at spikes to 200000us in response time 600us does not matter, if you look at PCI-E Flash kind of latencies you get response time well within 100us, it matters. Though I’m sure it is not just wiring problem 
Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 22, 2011 By 55 Comments
… think the problem with very low latency (think Flash Cards PCI-E) is it is very hard to scale on Amazon scale…
