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Solid-state drive refers to a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store its persistent data.

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HP Proliant DL380 G7 compatible with Kingston SKC1000H/960G PCIe SSD NVME?

Can anyone confirm if they've successfully installed and operated the Kingston SKC1000H/960G PCIe SSD NVME card in an HP ProLiant DL380 G7 Server? If so, is it just plug-and-play? Does the extra capacity just become available as a new…
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How-To Chain Boot/Trampoline Boot into Ubuntu 17 on PCIe SSD without BIOS support

I have a server-grade SSD (Intel DC P3520) that will eventually end up in a server. Until the server is deployed in the data center I want to conduct some tests in a desktop machine. I have an older but yet usable machine (AMD Phenom/ASUS M4A88T-M…
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Booting from PCIe SSD on Dell T3600

One of our local workstations SSD is severely slow. I can't seem to find much resources on whether or not the latest BIOS supports booting Windows Server from a PCIe SSD. If it doesn't, is there a way to force it to boot -- like grub on a USB drive…
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Transfer Speed Sudden Drop on Intel Raid Card between (2) 4 SSD Raid 0 Arrays

Preface; I have done hours of trouble shooting on this issue and simply cannot find out what the sudden "bottleneck" is. I have (2) 4 SSD Disk Raid 0 Arrays (3.8TB Each). They are run off a single Intel RS2BL040 which is on a 16x PCI Slot Ported to…
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Instruct Hetzner installimage to use SSD as primary OS drive

Purchased a dedicated Hetzner server with 2x small SSDs and 2x large HDDs paired with hardware RAID. Running installimage from Rescue OS shows this as config: # Adaptec RAID (LD 0): no name DRIVE1 /dev/sda # Adaptec RAID (LD 1): no name DRIVE2…
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4gb cache RAID and 2gb cache RAID controllers VS SAS and SSD disks

I'm going to provision a server with 2 raid controllers, both controllers have the same specs but the cache, being one a 2GB cache and the other a 4GB cache controller, let call them respectively SC (small cache) and BC (big cache). I also have 2…
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RAID 5 for SSD drives.

I am planning to deploy a cost efficient yet performant SAN/NAS setup for our main office. Use cases: storage for a 20-30 user VDI deployment, file server, primary backup location. Required usable capacity = 10TB. The storage software counterpart…
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Transparent SSD-read-cache for unmodified HDD

I want to accelerate a 4TB HDD using a 100GB cache partition on an SSD on linux. I only need read-only-cache, so data corruption should not be a problem. I understand that bcache offers a relatively straightforward solution to this use-case.…
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Slow SSD performance - IBM X3650 M4 (7915)

I set up a test environment for development purposes. It consists of a IBM X3650 M4 (7915) server with: 2 x Intel Xeon E2690 @ 2.90GHz 96GB 1333MHz ECC RAM 2 x HDD 146GB 15k rpm 6 x SSD 525GB (Crucial MX300) embedded ServeRaid m5110e in JBOD mode…
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Determining if upgrading to a fast PCIe SSD drive is worthwhile on a dual Xeon Nehalem system with PCIe v2.0

I am considering upgrading my workstation (almost a server) with a bootable PCIe drive, the 2TB version of the Samsung 960 Pro. But having a system with PCI v2, SATA II I am not sure if this makes sense as I am afraid of over-saturating the…
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Linux software RAID becomes unresponsive after removing a disk from server

I am running a CentOS 7 machine (standard kernel: 3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.x86_64) with a software RAID-10 over 16x 1 TB SSDs (to be more precise, there are two RAID arrays on the disks; one of the arrays is providing the host's swap partition). Last…
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Is There a Performance Benefit by Connecting a Single SSD Hard Drive to a RAID Controller?

I recently provisioned a new Windows Server 2012 R2 server at my hosting company. This is my first time using an SSD as my hard drive and the system is currently utilizing a single 800Gb drive (split into 2 partitions). I noticed immediately that…
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What is the difference between HP Mixed-Use-1 and Mixed-Use-3 SSD drives?

The title basically says it all. The HP whitepapers simply list Mixed-Use as a general category, but under server quickspecs for most newer HP hardware, Mixed-Use-1 and Mixed-Use-3 options are available (for example, 822559-B21, and 846434-B21 -…
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SSD vs Battery Backed Write Cache

I have been saddled with some servers with crap Dell H310 and H330 controllers (which don't have BBWC and provide about 15mb/sec write performance on spinning disks). I can upgrade the controllers to H710's (which do have a BBWC, but most likely…
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hdparm unlock ssd with correct password encoding

I have an old password protected SSD connected via USB to my Linux System. I'm trying to unlock it with hdparm. Problem is my password was ./perspective (it doesn't matter now because I only used it for the SSD and nowhere else) and I think because…
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