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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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Windows PE3.0 does not detect SSD -- Driver Injection

I’m having an issue with getting Windows PE 3.0 to recognize hard drive. At least I think this is the problem. I’m attempting to boot a Dell Latitude E7470 Solid State Drive, Windows 7 64-bit machine from a WINPE3.0 USB thumb drive. Initially,…
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Dell t430 very loud fan noise with pcie ssd

I have new server Dell t430 2 xenon e5-2640v3 64gb ram, 2x 1TB samsung evo 850 ssd and 2x Intel PCIE p3500 400gb ssd. When I installed Intel PCIe ssd server fan ramp up to 80% and is very loud. I tried changing fan profiles to low fan speed and it…
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What is the optimal strip size/full stripe size on a RAID 10 array for a database server?

I'm setting up a new SqlServer database server at work. The machine is a HP Proliant DL368 Gen9 with the SSD disks. When trying to create the array, I have to select the stripe/full stripe size. This is my first time setting up a RAID array, I have…
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Third-Party SAS SSD firmware HP Proliant G7

Is it possible to update the firmware of the third-party manufacture (SanDisk PN1-LB206M (B)) that makes the OEM SSD's for HP? To HP's current firmware for the exact same drive? HP Part #632633-001, SanDisk PN-LB206M (B) If firmware is not…
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Arrays removed by removing one disk?

I had an issue this weekend with a server at work, one of the Datastores (Raid1 2x300GB) on esxi filled up and the guest OS got suspended, we had nothing to attach an NFS to the esxi and all disk slots were busy. So I removed one of the disks of the…
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SSD bandwidth issue and analysis

I have Intel's P3700 SSD mounted on a Lenovo x3650 M5 server with two Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPUs. The server is running Ubuntu 14.04 with 4.6.4 Kernel. I've been using fio to benchmark the SSD using a synchronous sequential reads with 1MB block…
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SSD Temperture Increases during idle

I have 4 Samsung 850 EVO SSDs in a mdraid 10 array inside a high performance simple NAS. running Centos6.8 minimal. I have found that the SSD tempertures start to increase on their own without any disk io. this happens to only some of the drives at…
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SQL Server 2008 data directiories in SSD

I am going to install a new SQL server 2008 instance on my development/testing machine. My machine have one 7200rpm 500GB SATA Disk (C:OS) and one Intel X25-G2 80GB SSD(D:). Details machine config is as follow: CPU:i7 860 RAM:8GB Microsoft said I…
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mdadm scaling beyond 6 disks w/ ssd's

It seems Linux mdadm produces less writes & iops as more disks are added to an array. For example, I have tested the following configurations, with the defaults aside from changing the I/O scheduler to deadline and tuned-adm profile to…
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cassandra data migration from regular drive to SSD on production server

we want migrate our data from regular drives on production server to new SSD drives. how we can do that without taking down the node no longer than 4 hours(hinted hand-off is 4 hours) our data is in few hundreds of GigaBytes. what i was thinking is…
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Does mdstat showing very different block sizes for identical drives indicate a failing drive?

One of my servers has a RAID1 array composed of two 240GB SSDs. It is managed/controlled via Linux, not via a hardware card. Recently, for no apparent reason, the array needed rebuilding. I rebooted the server a few times recently, so perhaps there…
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Group Policies Not Applied At Startup with SSD PC

I have a problem with some new computers containing solid state drives which will not apply group policies at startup. All other PC's apply the GPO's no problem. Manually running gpupdate /force successfully applies the GPO's. I have set the…
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Consumer SSD on Server only to host OS, MS office, antivirus, accounting software

I have a IBM (Lenovo) System x3500 M4 Server with 16gb 2x 1TD hdd with 20 Terminals Think Clients for remote access at my office which was installed last year in May, replaceing 15 Desktops for team of 20 People. We don't use to many softwares apart…
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Raid in SSD issue with Trim

Yesterday I posted a question about Storage Spaces and ReFS about cache turn off (write through mode) and it's settled. I thought it will be simple, but it turns out far from simple and ran into another issue. Storage Spaces doesn't recommend having…
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Why would it matter if instance storage is SSD or magnetic on on AWS?

I'm reading a book on AWS Administration. SSDs are behave more like instance storage than EBS volumes, in that it is not possible to make a snapshot of an SSD. Data must be loaded on to the SSD each time the instance is used, which can increase…
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