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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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HP Proliant DL360 G6 Wont Detect SSD

I have a hp Proliant DL360 G6 It has 4 hard drive slots and I have 2 Intel 80GB SSDs and 1 WD 160GB regular hard drive. I have tried the WD in all 4 slots and each time it detects it and boots right up into vmware so the slots arn't defective. But…
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smartctl error end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector

I have a Scientific Linux 6.5 server with a RAID with SSD disks. I see several error on dmesg file but there is no alert or errors provided by the utilities of the RAID controller (LSI controller). The server is a Supermico D20-4x-M4, connected…
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Wearing an SSD out with Zero Byte Files

We have a rather large custom in-house application that we are considering moving the configuration files to an SSD drive. In the midst of these configure files we also write thousands of zero byte files to track logged on users and the timestamp…
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Windows Server 2012 not starting when PCIe SSD disk installed

I have Dell Power Edge R905 server with Windows 2012 R2 installed. Everything works great until I install Plextor M6e SSD PCIe x2 card. With card inserted into PCIe x4 or PCIe x8 slot, system starts and Windows logo is showing but nothing happen…
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AWS SSD Volume pricing and IO requests

I'm looking at the pricing for the new SSD storage volumes here, and I see that there is no listed charge for per 1 million I/O requests like there is with magnetic volumes. Does that mean there is no charge for reads/writes like there is with the…
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Benefit of Dell PERC Card for SSD

I bought a dell workstation for using with mysql and python. It came with a single HD and PERC 310 controller. I then installed the OS on an ssd instead to speed things up. However, there seems to be a problem with perc and ssd, such that trim…
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Upgrade to 3x Samsung SSD EVO in RAID-0 -- what type of RAID controller to search for?

My current configuration is a RAID-0 with three conventional 2TB hard drives. I want to upgrade to three 1TB SSD EVO disks, also in a RAID-0 configuration. Using SiSoftware Sandra, I found out that my T7500 Dell Precision uses SATA II (3Gb/s) in its…
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PCie ssds vs raid?

I am new to the whole SSD thing, but I don't understand how the following works? I need to be very specific for this question to make sense. 1 x LSI MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i 570$ 8 x Ultrastar SSD800MH MLC 200GB 8x1450 = 11.600$ Total cost:…
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JBOD or RAID on a streaming server setup

Currently my setup is 1 main server which holds all the mp4 videos and 3 other servers which holds portions of this video. The process is: when a user uploads a video, it is stored into the main server, then synced (rsync) oh one of the 3 servers.…
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Setup replication from one local disk to another local disk ( Ubuntu )

Is there is are some way to setup local replication of the one disk to the another ( Ubuntu ) in the such way that all read operations will be involve only first disk ? Such configuration will be very usefull for AWS SSD instances. In this case SSD…
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SQL server HA when running with PCI Flash device

I want to purchase a PCI based Flash storage device for our ESXi server hosting our SQL Server machine. We use SQL Server 2008 standard edition. storage is on Netapp via NFS. It is a VM (ESXi 5.1) Since I don't think I can trust the single PCI…
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Linux : SSD performance tweaking queue

I've allready applied well known mountpoint options for ssd, enabled stuff in LVM for ssd optimisation as well. Now i've ran into a possible challenge. Would it be possible to gather information on how to tune the values for the deadline…
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How to benchmark maxCache 3.0 with SSDs?

We're a software development company and previously outsourced the HW side of business but now we're looking into building our own private cloud. We recently purchased a few servers, one of which is supposed to act as a central storage. The specs…
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ext4 production ready on kernel 2.6.32 (debian6)?

I've to maintain a production system on debian6 (kernel version 2.6.32). I'd like to use ext4 on a ssd disk (and generally hope to improve performance upgrading from ext3). I can't find any reference about the ext4 state on that…
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SSD life span depends on rewrite

I want to know the life span of a SSD. Some where i read that If there is more write on the SSD then it will have less life. Is it true? What are the factors mainly effecting SSD life span. Please give your thoughts on this.
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