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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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Determining cause of SSD failure after 30-ish minutes

We have a 64GB SSD drive in a tower server with a local colocation company. This drive and the enter system was built about six months ago, brand new parts. Until this weekend the SSD/system were working perfectly. We're running CentOS 6.2 After…
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How to use 2 SSD disks for best performace?

I am going to format 2 120GB Intel 320 SSD to be used for a high traffic Drupal server. The server had Xeon E1270 CPU and 32GB RAM. I'm using Debian Squeeze 64 bit. Here are my questions: What file system format suits best in this case: ext3,…
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SSDs or 15k sas for server OS / application drive?

I'm thinking about upgrading the OS / application drive for an HP DL 580 G5 running windows server 2003 64-bit. We currently use 3 75GB 10k rpm SAS drives in RAID 1. The server is mainly used for running a memory and pagefile-hungry application, by…
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Ssd TRIM/DISCARD details

I am writing a script and I have a few questions about the inner workings of the TRIM command. If TRIM is issued for an entirely empty (zeroed) erase block, does the garbage collector still delete the block? I would like to be able to issue TRIM for…
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Can cloning a hard disk drive to a SSD drive physically damage the SSD or the performance of the SSD?

I have a new SSD drive, I want to use it to replace the old mechanical hard disk drive in a laptop. The laptop had a new O/S (Windows 7 64-bit) installed about 9 months ago and I want to know if it's worth the effort to reinstall the O/S or if I can…
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Is it possible to get hdparm to report the current level of performance degradation on my SSD?

I work on a product that is a headless Debian Linux system with removable Intel X-25M solid state drives. Recently we noticed that the read/write performance of these drives degrades over time, and sure enough the culprit was SSD block problems, as…
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MySQL Cluster on SSD

We are planning to implement a four node MySQL Cluster and are considering using SSDs as the storage. We would like to get a high level of performance and very low latency on disk IO from the small cluster, so we are looking at SSDs. Does anyone…
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What's the difference between Adaptec's "maxCache" and "Hybrid RAID" technologies?

http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/_common/maxcache/ http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/_common/hybrid-raid/ They sound similar, but there's no detailed description of how either of them work.
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How should I partition a 64GB SSD for multiple Linux installations?

Are there any things I should keep in mind in order to increase the longevity and efficiency of my SSD?
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Windows Storage Server and SSDs in Raid 0 - Slow performance

We have a computer running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 with 6 SSD in RAID 0. This storage computer has one PCI-E with 4 Ethernet ports and we connected it to a gigabit switch to other computers vi iSCSI. The problem is that we are not able to…
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MS-SQL Which files on which drives?

I'm quite a novice at configuration of MS-SQL so would appreciate some advice. I've got a Dell PE2950 Twin Quad Xeon server with 32GB RAM running MS-SQL 2008 Web Edition. The drives are 4x73GB SAS RAID 6 and 2x160GB SSD RAID 0. Given that I cant…
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Hardware specs for web cache

I am looking for recommendations for hardware specs for a server that needs to be a web cache for a user population of about 2,000 concurrent connections. The clients are viewing segmented HTTP video in bitrates ranging from 150kbps to 2mbps. Most…
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SSDs in high read/write environment

At the minute, we host VPSes for many customers using standard RAID10 setups using spindle hard disks. We are thinking of trying a new experiemnt: SSD based VPSes in RAID10 arrays. My knowledge isn't very clear on SSDs in high read/write…
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Install MySQL on SSD, best mount options?

I want to install the mysql-server on my SSD, what are the best mount options for this? (/etc/fstab) What else I can do to increase the SSD Speed? My current configuration: /dev/sdc /ssd ext4 errors=remount-ro,noatime,nodiratime,discard 0 0 I…
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ASP.Net Webapp no performance improvement with huge server update

i am running an ASP.Net webapp on a dedicated server and recently made a significant update to the server hardware. To my surprise there is absolutely no performance increase. old server: single xeon x3220 2 gigs of ram Windows 2003 IIs6 database…
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