Hum the Crucial m500 is pretty slow. The biggest one doesn’t even reach 300MB/s.
Intel DC S3700 100G showed around 200MB/sec for us.

Actually, I don’t know the price difference between the crucial and the intel 
but the intel looks more suitable for me. Especially after Mark’s comment.

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On 15 Jan 2014, at 15:28, Mark Nelson <mark.nel...@inktank.com> wrote:

> On 01/15/2014 08:03 AM, Robert van Leeuwen wrote:
>>> Power-Loss Protection:  In the rare event that power fails while the
>>> drive is operating, power-loss protection helps ensure that data isn’t
>>> corrupted.
>> 
>> Seems that not all power protected SSDs are created equal:
>> http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html
>> 
>> The m500 is not tested but the m4 is.
>> 
>> Up to now it seems that only Intel seems to have done his homework.
>> In general they *seem* to be the most reliable SSD provider.
> 
> Even at that, there has been some concern on the list (and lkml) that certain 
> older Intel drives without super-capacitors are ignoring ATA_CMD_FLUSH, 
> making them very fast (which I like!) but potentially dangerous (boo!).  The 
> 520 in particular is a drive I've used for a lot of Ceph performance testing 
> but I'm afraid that if it's not properly handling CMD FLUSH requests, it may 
> not be indicative of the performance folks would see on other drives that do.
> 
> On the third hand, if drives with supercaps like the Intel DC S3700 can 
> safely ignore CMD_FLUSH and maintain high performance (even when there are a 
> lot of O_DSYNC calls, ala the journal), that potentially makes them even more 
> attractive (and that drive already has relatively high sequential write 
> performance and high write endurance).
> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Robert van Leeuwen
>> 
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