Re: Contemplating SSD Hardware RAID

On 2011-06-21 22:10, Yeb Havinga wrote:
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>
> There's some info burried in
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2011-03/msg00350.php
> where two Vertex 2 pro's are compared; the first has been really
> hammered with pgbench, the second had a few months duty in a
> workstation. The raw value of SSD Available Reserved Space seems to be
> a good candidate to watch to go to 0, since the pgbenched-drive has
> 16GB left and the workstation disk 17GB. Would be cool to graph with
> e.g. symon (http://i.imgur.com/T4NAq.png)
>

I forgot to mention that both newest firmware of the drives as well as
svn versions of smartmontools are advisable, before figuring out what
all those strange values mean. It's too bad however that OCZ doesn't let
the user choose which firmware to run (the tool always picks the
newest), so after every upgrade it'll be a surprise what values are
supported or if any of the values are reset or differently interpreted.
Even when disks in production might not be upgraded eagerly, replacing a
faulty drive means that one probably needs to be upgraded first and it
would be nice to have a uniform smart value readout for the monitoring
tools.

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Yeb Havinga
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