Hi, https://yourcmc.ru/wiki/Ceph_performance author here %)
Disabling write cache is REALLY bad for SSDs without capacitors
[consumer SSDs], also it's bad for HDDs with firmwares that don't have
this bug-o-feature. The bug is really common though. I have no idea
where it comes from, but it's really common. When you "disable" the
write cache you actually "enable" the non-volatile write cache on those
drives. Seagate EXOS drives also behave like that... It seems most EXOS
drives have an SSD cache even though it's not mentioned in specs. And it
gets enabled when you do hdparm -W 0. In theory hdparm -W 0 may hurt
linear write performance even on those HDDs, though.
Well, what I was saying was "does it hurt to unconditionally run hdparm
-W
0 on all disks?"
Which disk would suffer from this? I haven't seen any disk where this
would
be a bad idea
Paul
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