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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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Using Dell PERC H330 RAID controller with not-dell-certified SSDs

We think about replacing our Dell PowerEdge T100 (2009) with a Dell PowerEdge T330 for our small business. Up to 15 clients are using the MSSql Server, some fileshares and printers. The database size is about 7G with little writes. We think about…
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HP DL380 G5 supported PCIE SSD/boot from SSD

I currently need a PCIE SSD to my G5's due to SW incompatibility with the P400 raid controller. Is there any PCIE ssd compatibility list? I've seen here that the Asus RAIDR Pcie SSD probably works fine on the G5. I know that the PCIE on the G5 is…
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Disorganized disks because of different disk technologies - LVM an answer?

I have a 1 TB spinning HD, and a 256 GB SSD. I keep my OS and large projects on the SSD, for speed. The rest is on the spinning HD, because of its size. The problem: This means I have things to back up spread out over different devices. Instead,…
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Selecting an SSD to act as boot volume in an HP server

A question I recently asked regarding the use of enterprise 10k vs. 7.2k midline SAS disks led to some suggestions that the use of a mirrored pair of SSDs as a boot volume can make sense because: Prices for smaller, read-intensive SSDs suitable for…
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NTFS journal on different (SSD) disk

Some advanced file systems, like ZFS have the option of using SSD disks as a second level cache for the file system or for the journal. Is this possible with NTFS?
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Proper Steps To Upgrade My Server 2008 R2 Machine From HHD To SSD

I'm working on upgrading a server's hard drive from a standard HHD to an SSD drive. I have cloned the drive with a program called "EaseUS Todo Backup Free 8.6" (which I think does a bunch of extra steps than just cloning the partitions) and that…
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dmcache - is removing cache device without suspending safe?

I'm using plain dmcache for SSD cache - unmount procedure goes this way: umount fs suspend cache device remove cache device close lvm close LUKS shutdown However sometimes dmsetup doesn't allow me to remove cache device throwing Device busy error,…
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Changing I/O scheduler for SSD

I have many CentOS systems, some of them have traditional hard disks, some SSD, and some mix of them. I would like to change scheduler for SSD to deadline. So at runtime I can simply scan check devices and for ones that have…
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RAID 6 - any write amplification in 4-drive RAID?

We're planning to move from a 4-drive RAID6 to a SSD RAID 1, and I was analyzing smartctl data to see how many GB we've writen to the drives over the past year so I can estimate the lifetime of the SSDs based on their endurance rating. I'm thinking…
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Hyper-V & SSD Best Performance

I'm building a Hyper-V host using Windows Server 2012. It will be hosting 3 Hyper-V images. I have a SSD and a larger standard HD. I cannot fit everything on the SSD. Performance wise, will I be better off using the SSD for the host OS, or using it…
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SSDs with the Intel RMS25CB080

I've bought a new server which only allows disks to be connected to a built-in Intel RMS25CB080 RAID controller card. The server has 8 2.5" slots. I'm considering using SSDs with this server, however I'm not interested in having the SSDs in a RAID…
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Hard disk / SSDs - detection and handling of errors - is silent data corruption reliably prevented?

When an error occurs on a drive, is it correct to assume that it will always be detected and reported to the OS (if software RAID such as mdadm) or RAID controller (if hardware RAID) as a failed read (i.e. it won't silently return corrupted data),…
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Should I defrag RAID Array with SSD caching(Intel SRT)?

I have an SSD in system and a RAID 0 array with SSD caching turned on(Intel SRT or Intel Smart Response Tech.). Should i defrag it? Also have a problems with windows defragmentator. It detects my raid array as SSD and was not able to defrag it. So…
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When reading SSD drive specs, what's the difference between MB/s and IOPS?

I'm trying to find a suitable SSD drive for my database server (postgres on debian 7 amd-64), and I find that for some SSD drives, while read speed is specified in MB/s, write speed is in IOPS. To make things more complicated, sometimes sequential…
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How to attach SSD to Azure VM and check its type?

I created one VM with 100G SSD, but it's only D rive, which is the temporary disk. I want to attach another SSD drive to the VM, but I'm not sure its type. Is is possible to do this? Thank You
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