Re: New server: SSD/RAID recommendations?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Wes Vaske (wvaske) <wvaske(at)micron(dot)com>
wrote:

> Storage Review has a pretty good process and reviewed the M500DC when it
> released last year.
> http://www.storagereview.com/micron_m500dc_enterprise_ssd_review
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> The only database-specific info we have available are for Cassandra and
> MSSQL:
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> http://www.micron.com/~/media/documents/products/technical-marketing-brief/cassandra_and_m500dc_enterprise_ssd_tech_brief.pdf
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> http://www.micron.com/~/media/documents/products/technical-marketing-brief/sql_server_2014_and_m500dc_raid_configuration_tech_brief.pdf
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> (some of that info might be relevant)
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> In terms of endurance, the M500DC is rated to 2 Drive Writes Per Day
> (DWPD) for 5-years. For comparison:
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> Micron M500DC (20nm) – 2 DWPD
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> Intel S3500 (20nm) – 0.3 DWPD
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> Intel S3510 (16nm) – 0.3 DWPD
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> Intel S3710 (20nm) – 10 DWPD
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> They’re all great drives, the question is how write-intensive is the
> workload.
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Intel added a new product, the 3610, that is rated for 3 DWPD. Pricing
looks to be around 1.20$/GB.

merlin