Re: Intel SSDs that may not suck

From: David Rees <drees76(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Intel SSDs that may not suck
Date: 2011-04-07 01:07:02
Message-ID: BANLkTinOw9WSM-pq4h-HRJO9uy9MM1SwOA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com> wrote:
> On 4/5/11 7:07 AM, "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>One thing about MLC flash drives (which the industry seems to be
>>moving towards) is that you have to factor drive lifespan into the
>>total system balance of costs. Data point: had an ocz vertex 2 that
>>burned out in ~ 18 months.  In the post mortem, it was determined that
>>the drive met and exceeded its 10k write limit -- this was a busy
>>production box.
>
> What OCZ Drive?  What controller?  Indilinx? SandForce?  Wear-leveling on
> these vary quite a bit.

SandForce SF-1200

-Dave

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