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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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What can be moved safely to local ssd on Ubuntu Azure VM?

I have an Azure VM which recently have been resized to D2 size form A2 Basic so it has a new SSD local disk (a temporal disk with no persistence guarantee). Now it has the swap file, but I think it can be used for more temporary things. What can be…
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Hard drive write operation expected rates

It is known that SSDs are suboptimal for "high-write" environments. What common business and/or personal computing use cases are "high-write" situations, which are "low-write" situations, and what are the relative frequencies of these situations…
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ZFS - zpool ARC cache plus L2ARC benchmarking

I have been doing lots of I/O testing on a ZFS system I will eventually use to serve virtual machines. I thought I would try adding SSD's for use as cache to see how much faster I can get the read speed. I also have 24GB of RAM in the machine that…
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HP ProLiant ML310e G8 v2 ssd

I have a HP ProLiant ML310e G8 v2 with Intel® Xeon® E3-1220v3 3.10GHz processor and I'd like to upgrade the storage to a SSD one. Currently I have two Non-SSD hard drives that I've configured RAID 1 and I'd like to create a separate RAID 1 but with…
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Recover partition that was removed and overwritten with another partition on an SSD disk

I have a SSD that was used as a boot drive that was originally split the following way: major minor #blocks name 8 0 250059096 sda 8 1 61812736 sda1 8 2 1 sda2 8 3 184148992 sda3 8 5 …
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Can I connect a PCIe 2.5" SSD to a regular PCIe 3 slot?

I'm looking to upgrade my server's storage. It currently has SATA SSD storage but I would like to add to it an even faster PCIe3 SSD. It's a full tower with a few empty PCIe3 slots but no PCIe3 backplane, the motherboard model is Supermicro X9DR3-F.…
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SSD cache for ISCSI block mode drives possible?

I have Debian based Openmediavault 3.0 distribution with iscsi plugin based on ietd. Among others, I use it to serve several disks as ISCSI block mode for VMWare servers. It works, however it is getting out of IOPs slowly. I wanted to add SSD to…
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Optimize file system for Linux web server with SSD and HDD

I have just taken delivery of a new Centos 7 web server which comes with a 4Tb HDD and 240Gb SSD. Both are hardware RAID. As it stands everything is installed on the SSD. I will need more than 240Gb space and would like some ideas on how to set the…
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clone nvme drive with 4096 sector size to ssd with 512 sector size

I have an nvme drive with a logical and physical sector size of 4096. The block size of this drive as reported by blockdev --getbsz command to be 4096 as well. The destination drive is an SSD with a logical and physical sector size of 512. The block…
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Web/Cloud/File Server with 3 SSDs

I built a small N3160/8GB server with 1x120GB mSATA 850 EVO and 2x250GB 850 EVO SATA3 SSDs. It is a mini-ITX motherboard with just 2 SATA ports and 2xmSATA slots (manufacturer says one can be used for mSATA and the other for Wi-Fi card) so I don't…
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Deploying to an Ultrabook with an SSD using MDT 2013 Update 2

I am having issues Deploying a custom image of Windows 10 to an Ultrabook with an SSD using MDT 2013 Update 2. I have had numerous conversations with Lenovo Support but not getting any solid answers from them. The laptop we want to copy the image to…
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How do I make MySQL, PHP, & Apache run off of my SSD? (Linux)

I'm fairly new to the whole Linux Server thing but one of my websites has grown to the point that I'm moving to a dedicated hardware virtual-server instead of using a web-hosting service. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and I've installed Apache, MySQL,…
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Is it possible to install a solid state drive into a Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstation?

Our Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstations came with SAS drives, but my understanding is that the backplane will support both SAS and SATA. Sun's docs specify a very limited number of supported drives, but I'm wondering if anyone has actual experience…
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Drive failure on VMware host in production

I have a Dell PE R710 with a PERC 6/i running ESXi 5.1. It has two datastores, one of which are two SSDs in a RAID1. This morning I was called that something wasn't working. Initially, I logged into the vSphere client to see that the virtual…
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Jr. Sys Admin mistake, Can/Do I need to Un-RAID 0 my drives?

Backstory: Just started as a Jr. Sys Admin, Cleaning up data center, re-purposing workstations I find to update currently used workstations. I started off with a terminal that had some potential, i7-4790, 8 GB Ram, but only had 1 120GB SSD with…
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