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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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SSD errors under NetApp E-Series 5424

We're having some weird issues with our Storage (netapp e-series 5425) and a bunch of SSDs. Technically they work fine, we can do all operations on it, whatever runs on it runs fine, but we keep getting these messages in the log (for all…
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Windows Server 2016 installation hangs on new SSD

I hope Server Fault is the right place to ask, move to Super User if that is more appropriate. I am trying to do what I thought would be a simple upgrade of Windows Server 2012 to 2016 with a new SSD instead of HDD on a Dell PowerEdge 220. When I…
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Need to upgrade Azure VM Standard HDD to SSD?

I've got an email from Azure : "Adjust your disk throughput or upgrade to premium disk storage. You’re receiving this email because you’re running infrastructure as a service virtual machine (VM) workloads on a Standard HDD or Standard SSD Disk in…
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What is the difference between the cloud disks supported by Alibaba Cloud?

When creating an ECS instance on Alibaba Cloud, I often get an option to choose a cloud disk e.g. from Ultra Cloud disk and SSD cloud disk. What is the difference between these cloud disks and what kind of implications do they have on the…
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"Boot disk cannot be local attached storage." in GCP

In GCP, I tried to create a server with a local SSD (because the performance is much better). However, I get the following error: "Boot disk cannot be local attached storage." Surely the answer is "GCP doesn't support this." But there were no hits…
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Why does disk latency drop during periods of heavy writes?

Looking at the output of Munin's diskstats plugin (which is reading from /proc/diskstats) I'm noticing what seems peculiar to me. The disk is a SSD, and I would assume, magnetic or solid state, that latency would increase during periods of heavy…
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RAID 10 with SSDs on LSI 9260-8i has bad performance

I am trying to get a raid 10 running with LSI 9260-8i (IBM M5015) and 4 x Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSDs. The problem is, that the resulting sequential write performance is really bad (< 100MB/s). With raid 0, it is > 800 MB/s. My system is a Dell…
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Can I move from SAS HDD to SSD?

I have an HP ML350 Gen 8 server with 8 SAS HDDs of 600 GB each. Since the drives are a little bit old now, I would like to replace them with SSDs. I would like to know if I can do this, and if I should continue the existing RAID setup. Current RAID…
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Dell R610, Perc 6/i SSD SATA drive slow speed

Before buying an SSD for the server I've tried to use SSD from my notebook: SSD disk (TRANSCEND 2.5" SSD370S 128 gb SATA III MLC TS128GSSD370S) has speed at my notebook 350-400 MB/s. I installed it to the Perc 6/i of R610. No any other disks in the…
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SSD Wear_Leveling_Count = 17

I have just checked my SSD drive (Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB) with smartctl. The result is: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 …
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Repurpose a used SSD - how to TRIM it?

I am going to put a used SSD into a server to boot from it and hold the OS itself, while making a RAID1 from two other HDDs. Since the SSD has been used, do I need to trim it beforehand and how? Or do I just shove it in the server and use it right…
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Low random read IOPS intel dc s4500

i have very bad read performance on my new intel ssd. My configuration is: HP proliant DL360e gen8 with Smart Array P222 controler. Intel ssd dc s4500 960GB 64GB ram 2x Intel cpu I have 2x SAS HDD 7200rpm(raid 0), 1x consumer Samsung SSD (raid 0)…
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ESXi 6.0 with HDD RAID 5 and a separate SSD disk: where to install ESXi itself

Actually, it is a satellite for this question: ESXi: unable to mark SSD drive as SSD, but I just thought I would raise a separate question, since this question is not related to the error I bumped into, but rather related to the proper ESXi…
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BTX halted error on FreeBSD

I understand there are a few threads about this out there but my issue seems particular. Recently my boot disk, an SSD, failed and I have just rebuilt it. Given the opportunity, I thought I might go ahead and build it with a ZFS boot device (ie…
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Performance decision on a 3-server HA scenario

I am setting up a new infrastructure for our current project, mgirating from a 2 server in 2 locations to a new 3 servers/3 datacenters... which should allow us to have a higher high availability. That said, I need to make a decision upon the…
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