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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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Kickstart fails on SSD disk

Trying to deploy a 2xSSD server (with mdraid level 1), errors on the 1st line: clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=sda,sdb with the message "sda not found". As the SSD is SATA3, shouldn't it be called via the standard sdX names? The machine is…
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Processing data faster using ssis and an ssd drive

We have a new local server that processes data using sql server 2008 and ssis. in this server i have dedicated drive to do different things. the c drive is for the os and software. the d drive is for db storage , and the ssis . The e drive is a ssd…
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Server Upgrade and Data migration

Hello, I'm migrating a server here is the detail of both server, Copy from Location Current Server have 450GB of Data in home drive, which is critical and must be copied.Current Server have 7200RPM SATA with RAID0 and transfer rate is 24-27Mb/s in…
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whats the difference between 1lane and 2lane with SATA-3 speeds?

I read the beauty of PCIe is that a designer can combine two, four, eight or sixteen of PCIe lanes into a single data port. 2.5 Gb/s PCIe×1 5 Gb/s PCIe×2 I have two sata 3 drives that I want to put into a RAID 0, just not sure how to check how…
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What errors would be logged if SSD is failing or has failed in RAID 1?

What are the errors, if any, that would be observed on /var/log/messages if an SSD is failing or has failed? I would like to know how such errors would be worded so that it could be picked up by an automated program to warn the user to replace the…
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RAID 10 vs RAID 1 SSDs

I'm considering moving a large database from mechanical disks to SSDs. My initial instinct was to go for RAID 10, but further research suggests that this configuration can significantly reduce the random access performance of the SSDs. The database…
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SSD I/O slows down system

My HDD was getting full, so I added a new SSD and tried moving files to it. For some reason, this bogs down the whole system to the point where it's not usable. This never happened with HDDs when copying/moving files from one (spinning) HDD to…
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What is the cause of most top-vendor SSD crashes?

I'm referring to total crashes where the SSD doesn't work anymore. Not IO errors. SSDs have a limited lifespan. So if nothing else goes wrong, eventually they die of NAND wear. My question is what are the statistics (as far as we know) of what…
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My server virtual memory full

occasionally my server hits 100% usage on virtual memory and I don't know if that is something alarming or not? ( this happends gradualy to fill to that percent over 1-2 weeks from clean swap) I usually resolve this issue like this: swapoff -a &&…
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Write performance issues with SSD RAID 10 on P840/4gb fbwc

I have a new system with 4x512GB Samsung SSD 850 in a RAID10 array using P840/4gb fbwc RAID controller. When i download a file from network (10 Gbit/s) write speed is not that good. I tried downloading a single 1000MB file using wget: Saving to:…
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install windows 10 in esxi 6 but disk speed in machine

I have 2 Windows 10 in esxi 6 on ssd datastor but hard speed in task manager is 3 mb/s I install esxi in dl380 g9 server . Is it normall speed ? How i can solve this problem?
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How unlikely it is that 2 SSD disks in a RAID 1 crash and how to recover from it?

How unlikely is it that a mirrored raid of 2 ssd drives fail together. (Both sector 0) unreadable. Me is told that ssd generally never breaks. So that both break at same time seems unique. What are chances of recovery when I get the drives shipped…
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Consumer vs Enterprise SSD

I'm deciding what SSD's to use in our infrastructure. Enterprise drives are obviously more reliable but storage items are expendable and will fail anyway. So considering that we have proper RAID, backup and fail-over solutions in place what would…
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Raid 1/0 SSD vs 2 x non-Raid SSD

I have a question about speed performance with two separate SSD drives comparing them to RAID mirror array. I do not like idea to setup RAID 0 with 2 x SSD drives because of high risk of data loss, but I like an idea to have read speed advantages…
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HP ML350p Gen8 won't boot from PCIe SSD

I have a HP ML350p Gen8 with a PCIe SSD and I'm trying to boot from it, but it won't do it. I can see the PCIe SSD in the list of hard drives when to choose where to install windows 10 pro, but after I install windows, it would give an error about…
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