Re: New server: SSD/RAID recommendations?

After a plug-pull during the create, reboot and here is the verify:

root(at)Dbms2:/var/tmp # ./diskchecker.pl -s newfs verify /test/biteme
verifying: 0.00%
verifying: 3.81%
verifying: 10.91%
verifying: 18.71%
verifying: 26.46%
verifying: 33.95%
verifying: 41.20%
verifying: 49.48%
verifying: 57.23%
verifying: 64.89%
verifying: 72.54%
verifying: 80.04%
verifying: 87.96%
verifying: 95.15%
verifying: 100.00%
Total errors: 0

da6 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 17 lun 0
da6: <ATA INTEL SSDSC2BP24 0420> Fixed Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
da6: Serial Number BTJR446401KW240AGN
da6: 600.000MB/s transfers
da6: Command Queueing enabled
da6: 228936MB (468862128 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 29185C)

# smartctl -a /dev/da6

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Intel 730 and DC S3500/S3700 Series SSDs
Device Model: INTEL SSDSC2BP240G4
Serial Number: BTJR446401KW240AGN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 04b71afc7
Firmware Version: L2010420
User Capacity: 240,057,409,536 bytes [240 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Tue Jul 7 17:01:36 2015 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Note -- same firmware between all three series of Intel devices...... :-)

Yes, I like these SSDs -- they don't lie and they don't lose data on a
power-pull.

On 7/7/2015 08:08, Graeme B. Bell wrote:
> Thanks, this is very useful to know about the 730. When you say 'tested it with plug-pulls', you were using diskchecker.pl, right?
>
> Graeme.
>
> On 07 Jul 2015, at 14:39, Karl Denninger <karl(at)denninger(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> Incidentally while there are people who have questioned the 730 series power loss protection I've tested it with plug-pulls and in addition it watchdogs its internal power loss capacitors -- from the smartctl -a display of one of them on an in-service machine here:
>>
>> 175 Power_Loss_Cap_Test 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 643 (4 6868)
>
>

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