May 26, 2012

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 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 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 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

Comment: Testing Intel SSD 520

Can you benchmark actual MySQL performance on the SSD? Not sure how well sysbench results translate into actual MySQL results.

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

… run MySQL on, but IF there’s reasonable advantage with SSDs, then maybe it shouldn’t be counted out. Especially if…

Comment: Testing STEC SSD MACH16 200GB SLC

… way, Percona benchmarks seem to be the only freely available SSD benchmarks that are useful, I appreciate that!