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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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Crucial C300 256GB SSDs in Dell M605 (or similar) Blade with Perc H700

Does anyone have any experience with 3rd party SSD drives in any of the Dell Blade range? I'm not prepared to pay dell £1000 for a 100GB SSD drive, when I can pick up 2x 256GB drives for £800! I've read this : Dell SSD options and 3rd party SSDs in…
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RAID of SATA SSDs or PCIe Flash?

As a reference: Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB drives. MySQL 5.1.5x running InnoDB tables. Linux (CentOS 5.5 etx3 journaled). Questions: Is it better to use a RAID of these so that drives can be swapped in and out or get a FusionIO or RevoDrive…
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Question about drives in a heavily used file storage server

I have a medium sized file storage website that allows people to backup their data online. A lot of these files are shared, and receive large amounts of traffic. I have several types of servers, and I have yet to find the "sweet spot" where I could…
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Web server on SAN vs SSD

We are running 3 PHP web servers with the web directory (including the php files to be ran locally) pulled from a their own local SSD drive. We are deciding wheter to install a SAN to server our web directory from. The main reason for the switch to…
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Free tiered storage automation in linux?

I have a couple virtualized fileservers running in QEMU/KVM on ProxmoxVE. The physical host has 4 storage tiers with significant performance variances. They're attached both locally and via NFS. These will be provided to the fileserver(s) as local…
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SSD RAID 1 and INTEL S5520SC

I've a server using INTEL S5520SC motherboard. I was wondering if it's possible to connect 2 SSD 128GB INTEL EXTREME drives in RAID 1 directly to this motherboard or would I need some kind of external controller? Also will this work good, reliable…
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SQL Server 2005 tempdb files moved to invalid (SSD) drive. How to validate drive, or how to move files back?

SQL 2005 32bit Developer edition, all recent service packs Windows Server 2003 Standard 64x, all recent updates Fusion IO drive We installed a wifty new 80GB SSD card on our development server, ran ALTER TABLE on tempdb (10GB starting size) to move…
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Is there a utility to TRIM my Intel SSD (Gen 2 160GB)? Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

Is there a utility to TRIM my Intel SSD (Gen 2 160GB)? Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008
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Recommendations for SSD for server and database use?

SSDs are a new technology and they are constantly improving. A lot of the posts here were posted in 2009 when SSDs where less mature and not as fast. What was recommend back then is probably out of date today because of better options. The SSD is…
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What are the best options for a root filesystem hosted on SSD under Linux

I'm working on an embedded system which is going to be booting and hosting it's rootfs on an SSD disk. We are currently looking at using Intel X-18M SSDs. The file system structure will have a fairly static /usr section (modulo software upgrades)…
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File access on SSD array suddenly slowed down; TRIM appears to be unavailable. How to enable, or what else could it be?

We have a system that's used for a GIS database (with Postgres as the underlying engine) which is using a software RAID 5 array of 4x2TB Samsung EVO870 SATA SSDs as its database drive. There is a nightly backup script that dumps the tables to a…
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RAID10 on SSD drives

I can't find information about using SSDs in RAID10. If I want to build RAID10, should I create RAID partition in 80% of total drive size on each drive?
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Distributed SSD cache for network storage

Our small computing cluster has 3 computing nodes and 1 file server. The file server has around 70TB data to be accessed by the 3 computing nodes. All of the 3 computing nodes have 3 4TB SSDs which are now idling. Currently the computing nodes use…
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lvmcache/dm-cache writeback cache full performance

I have a SSD writeback cache in front of a HDD, set up through lvmcache (so a dm-cache). When the cache LV is not full (Data% column in lvs < 100.00%), writes go to the cache device (monitored via dstat). However, when the cache LV is full (Data% =…
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RAID controller detecting SSD as foreign after every reboot

My server, an R610, has been detecting my SSD as foreign after every reboot. It has a PERC 6/i RAID controller, but there's no actual RAID stuff (I just have all the drives as their own VDs). This had happened a few times over the last year or two,…
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