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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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Do any software RAID solutions support the TRIM command?

This is a broad question -- I'm not asking about a particular RAID level or OS.
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Hetzner's installimage script, RAID1 hard drives + SSD

I just purchased a server from Hetzner, with two 4TB hard drives and one 1TB SSD. I want to setup the two hard drives (/dev/sda & /dev/sdb) in RAID1 and install the OS on them, and have the SSD (/dev/sdc) as an extra drive. Until now, all my…
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What is the performance impact of disabling NCQ?

Our cluster system runs currently under CentOS7 with SSDs and NCQ disabled. What kind of a performance drop is to be expected within an i/o-heavy usage scenario? I'm not expecting a precise answer because I know it largely depends on the…
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How to send "ATA Secure Erase" command to SSD?

A very good way to erase a SSD which have SED support is to change the password/key. But what to do with those that doesn't have SED support? This article says Fortunately it is possible to erase most SSDs, though this is closer to a “reset” than…
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Optimize SSD storage on Centos 6.6 - KVM

I have a Dell R610 with hardware: H700 raid card 4xMicron MX100 512GB -> configured raid 10 I have installed Centos 6.6 on this server and configured: KVM virtualization Volume Group for raid 10 array Each guest VM using Logical Volumes from…
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Proliant ML310e Gen8 Smart Array Predicted Failure Issue with SSD

This is a question related to this one: Third-party SSD solutions in ProLiant Gen8 servers but not covered by the question or the answers. I have an OCZ 120 gig SSD as system drive on a Proliant ML310e Gen8 server, sitting on SATA port 6. In order…
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3rd party SSD drive in HP Proliant server only shows 3G transfer speed

After receiving some excellent advice in a previous question, we've bought a OWC Mercury Extreme Pro drive for use in our HP Proliant DL360 G7 server. Both the drive, and the P410i array controller, will apparently support a 6Gb/s…
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Dell SSD options and 3rd party SSDs in Dell hardware

Anyone have any experience with Dell's SSDs? We're looking at using them for a machine running a key value database like Tokyo Tyrant. They're expensive as well as being pretty small. Only 25/50GB for $850/$1700. Is there any magic to them that…
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What would happen if I did a raid on a SSD and an HDD?

I am building another server (cheap) and would like to go with a 256GB SSD drive for my boot and data. This will be enough for my needs, but just having one SSD scares me for a couple of reasons. If I did a mirror raid with a SSD and an HDD, what…
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ext4 filesystem corruption -- maybe hardware error?

I'm getting these errors in dmesg after about half an hour after I turn on the computer: [ 1355.677957] EXT4-fs error (device sda2): htree_dirblock_to_tree: inode #1318420: (comm updatedb.mlocat) bad entry in directory: directory entry across…
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Server SSD upgrade

I have heard SSD's are a bad idea for servers are they? Do they eliminate the requirement for RAID i.e. are they more reliable overall? The cost isn't an issue here. Can someone provide direction on whether SSD is a good idea for server or does SSD…
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dd vs. secure-erase for reconditiong SSDs

Does writing zeros to an entire ssd (dd if=/dev/zero of/dev/sdX) give the same performance restoring effect that you get from a "secure erase", or does secure erase do something else as well? ==EDIT== To clarify slightly; I don't care about securely…
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What is faster? A local mechical hard drive or a solid state drive over gigabit ethernet?

SSDs are rather new, so I couldn't find this information on the Internet. Would the performance of a local hard drive connected using SATA2 get out performed by a SSD over gigabit ethernet? In terms of both latency and bandwidth, mechanical hard…
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With a 500GB SSD and a 250GB SSD is it possible to mirror a 250GB partition on the 500GB with the 250GB SSD using ZFS?

So I have a Samsung 250GB 850 Evo SSD and a 500GB 860 EVO SSD. I'm looking at using Solaris for this server (so looking at whether doing this with ZFS is possible). Is it possible to mirror the 250GB SSD with a 250GB partition on the 500GB SSD,…
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Poor write performance of software RAID10 array of 8 SSD drives

I have server with Supermicro X10DRW-i motherboard and RAID10 array of 8 KINGSTON SKC400S SSDs; OS is CentOS 6 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid10] [raid1] md2 : active raid10 sdj3[9](S) sde3[4] sdi3[8] sdd3[3] sdg3[6] sdf3[5] sdh3[7]…
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