Questions tagged [solid-state-drive]

SSD SUPPORT IS OFF-TOPIC. General HDD/SSD support may be asked on Super User (https://superuser.com). A solid-state drive (SSD) is a flash disk similar to a thumb drive, but much faster and with a hard-disk interface, typically SATA.

A solid-state drive is a storage medium based on high-performance flash memory. Most SSD have the same logical interfaces as hard disks (e.g. SATA ). SSDs can be distinguished from HDDs by not having any moving mechanical components.

257 questions
0
votes
1 answer

aerospike on openvz 2core 4Gb ram doesn't start and doesn't give errors

after installation without any trouble I've started aerospike on a openvz vps with 2cores and 4gb ram. this is the result: root@outland:~# /etc/init.d/aerospike start * Start aerospike: asd [OK] then check for running asd: root@outland:~#…
user1658162
  • 2,721
  • 2
  • 19
  • 23
0
votes
1 answer

Can placing the Rails app in an SSD and running rails server in it damage the drive?

In a development environment, running rails s is a bit slow. I thought of moving my project files to the SSD. People say that we should not do too many writes and reads to an SSD. Will this damage the drive?
THpubs
  • 7,804
  • 16
  • 68
  • 143
0
votes
1 answer

IOMeter doesn't write log files due to full disk

Does anyone have a workaround for IOMeter not writing logs to disk? I believe this is because the iobw.tst file takes up the whole disk. I have had the test running, then manually created a temporary 1MB file while the disk was filling up, then…
mcnnowak
  • 265
  • 3
  • 17
0
votes
1 answer

High rate data stream and memory deficiency

I have a program that accumulates traffic from network interface in 800 Mb/s. This program is developed by Delphi, also in 32bit platform(Delphi does not support 64bit architecture). I'm writing received date on the memory(RAM) and after a while…
0
votes
2 answers

Writing many large files quickly in C++

I have a program which gets a stream of raw data from different cameras and writes it to disk. The program runs these sorts of recordings for ~2 minutes and then another program is used to process the frames. Each raw frame is 2MB and the frame rate…
digitalPhonix
  • 138
  • 1
  • 7
0
votes
1 answer

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…
user2615302
  • 194
  • 2
  • 14
0
votes
3 answers

Decrease VS201X build / load time

Here is my conundrum. On the project I work on I need to switch branches a few times a day, when I do my machine grinds to a halt, it makes me really unproductive for 10 minutes while Visual Studio reloads the solution. Compilation time is really…
BarendB
  • 277
  • 2
  • 9
0
votes
1 answer

Would a SSD help in the generation speed of ipa files?

I'm running into ipa generation times of 15-20 mins.. and I'd love to cut it at least by half. I don't have currently an SSD, so, I was wondering, since I got tons of little files, assets mostly, would it improve the compilation time if I run…
Artemix
  • 8,497
  • 14
  • 48
  • 75
0
votes
1 answer

Expression Engine Apache and SSD

Recently I've been working on an expression engine project that has a performance problem. On a test with 50 concurrent connections Extremely high (100%) CPU usage Low RAM usage (2 gigs out of 8) Low CPU/RAM usage on the database And the web…
Devin Dixon
  • 11,553
  • 24
  • 86
  • 167
0
votes
1 answer

io_getevents returns less number of jobs than requested in time shorter than timout

I am reading SSD, requesting 20 async jobs. io_getevents returned value 7 indicating that it timed out. timeout is set to 10 seconds as seen below. elapsed time of the call is really 4.89e-05 seconds, eg, there were still almost all 10 seconds…
Grzegorz
  • 3,207
  • 3
  • 20
  • 43
0
votes
2 answers

java fastest concurrent random file R/W method for SSDs without memory swap

I have a linux box with 32GB of ram and a set of 4 SSD in a raid 0 config that maxes out at about 1GB of throughput (random 4k reads) and I am trying to determine the best way of accessing files on them randomly and conccurently using java. The two…
user1467885
  • 113
  • 1
  • 4
0
votes
1 answer

Can I place my application code on partition in my RAM?

I want use RAM instead of SSD. I'm looking for experienced people to give me some advice about this. I want to mount a partition and put into it my Rails app. Any ideas? UPD: I tested the SSD and RAM. I have a OSX with 4x4Gb Kingston @ 1333 RAM,…
artemeff
  • 73
  • 2
  • 7
0
votes
1 answer

It is possible to forcibly include IDE's directory (workspace) into Caching SSD?

I have Hybrid storage drive (HDD 500 GB+ and SSD 32 GB). Can I forcibly include Eclipse IDE and Eclipse's work directory (Workspace) into SSD drive (which is used for caching by default)?
WelcomeTo
  • 19,843
  • 53
  • 170
  • 286
0
votes
1 answer

ATA command device IDENTIFY

I am trying to identify a device using ATA_PASS_THROUGH_EX. When I see the output buffer, it has all invalid data. Can someone help me what I am doing wrong? #include #include #include void main() { WCHAR…
Nick
  • 1,692
  • 3
  • 21
  • 35
0
votes
1 answer

hi1.4xlarge SSD EC2 instance for EMR

I have several hadoop jobs which I run on EMR. A few of those jobs need to process the log files. The log files are huge ~3GB each in .gz format. The logs are stored on S3. Presently, I use m1.xlarge for processing, it takes around 3hours just to…
Kartikeya Sinha
  • 508
  • 1
  • 5
  • 20