Solid-state drive refers to a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store its persistent data.
Questions tagged [ssd]
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Is there really any need to use a RAID with SSDs ?
It seems that SSDs inherently address things that RAID arrays were made to solve -
Seek time is 0 ;
Lifespan is much longer / health reporting is better / data recovery is generally easier.
Plus, when I was looking for where someone may've already…
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HP's $1,000 RAID Controller is outclassed by on-board raid?
HP's $1,000 Smart Array P822 controller is outclassed by an on-board raid controller. I'm having a hell of a time trying to figure this one out. My problem is that performance on the HP controller is significantly below what the drive is capable…
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Experience with LITEON IT ECT 480 N9S SSDs in high load server?
Dell is selling servers with LITEON IT ECT 480 N9S SSDs. I have no experience with LITEON SSDs and can only find very limited information about the LITEONs online.
I have seen the brief fact sheet on the drive, but one thing is the official numbers,…
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Mix physical media for ESXi VM, or keep it all on one physical volume?
Say I have a 120GB SSD and a 2TB volume from a portion of a larger RAID6 array. I would like to spin up a Windows Server VM for purely low-impact personal use that employs a large data store in some fashion. Which would be a better practice: (a)…
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Are HDD <-> SSD transfer speeds completely bottlenecked by HDD speed?
Is transferring data from an SSD to HDD and HDD to SSD speed about the same as HDD to HDD speed for both ways?
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How can find and sure hard disk of the server is SSD?
How can find and sure hard disk of the server is SSD?
Linux and Windows, I woulk like to know both.
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how to use SSD for streaming videos, while storing on HDDs
I run a video hosting, youtube like site.
I currently run it with 2x3TB HDDs and they max out at 150mB/s
I`m willing to achieve higher speeds and I think of storing the data on HDDs and streaming them via SSD disk.
How can this be achieved? Can…
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