… this page http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-520-series.html I see “End-to-End Data Protection… uses compression. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-520-tech-brief.html That may explain why do…
Comment: Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 - not all SSD created equal
April 25, 2012 By 10 Comments
… of garbage collection. Vadim – did you look at Intel 520 drives ? These look like a lot higher performance than 320 model… between models http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-330-series.html
Comment: FusionIO 320GB MLC benchmarks
January 12, 2010 By 19 Comments
Solid State drives may be more reliable in the short term but, from … for Micron (who supplies Intel), sold state has a tendency toward catastrophic failure. When solid state devices are created a certain amount of… memory is used and any other memory is lost the solid state drive completely fails. What I’m suggesting (and not 100% sure…
Post: Percona Server Scales Vertically with Virident tachIOn Drives
February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… and start scaling vertically with PCI-E flash drives, specifically the Virident tachIOn drive, which offers consistent, low-latency IO performance. I…. Today’s solid-state PCIe hardware offers extremely high-bandwidth, low-latency I/O performance, exemplified by the Virident tachIOn drive. “Scaling up…
Comment: MLC SSD card lifetime and write amplification
November 15, 2011 By 8 Comments
Intel has Solid-State Drive Toolbox which shows Drive health & Estimated drive life remaining. http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18455
Post: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 21, 2011 By 54 Comments
… with physical hardware? Specifically, how does it compare to commodity solid-state drives? Let’s put them in the ring and let them…-class server. The disks are six OCZ-VERTEX2 200-GB drives in a RAID10 array, with an LSI MegaRAID controller with…, but given that we know there are 3 pairs of drives behind it, the device wouldn’t be 100% utilized until…
Post: Write performance on Virident tachIOn card
December 13, 2010 By 10 Comments
… fully reflects our opinion. One of the biggest problems with solid state drives is that write performance may drop significantly with decreasing free…
Post: Is there benefit from having more memory ?
November 19, 2010 By 10 Comments
… have more then 128GB of memory? If we use fast solid state drive, should we still be looking to increase memory, or that…
Post: SLC vs MLC
July 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
…cross posting from SSDPeformanceBlog.com ) All modern solid state drives use NAND memory based on SLC (single level cell) or …
Comment: SSD, XFS, LVM, fsync, write cache, barrier and lost transactions
July 9, 2009 By 32 Comments
I meant http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2009/07/solid-state-drive-benchmarks-and-write.html … funny markup …
