Re: [9fans] cheep ssds

2011-08-03 Thread Charles Forsyth
i've had one potentially important ssd fail within 15 hours of my copying stuff onto it; it failed completely (ie, the bios hung up probing it). the drive was marked "refurbished", which makes me think i was rather a victim of an experiment (``can we refurbish ssds that have previously shown a fata

Re: [9fans] cheep ssds

2011-08-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> I'd be curious on an update in the future concerning reliability. I > think you of all people could give it a good workout. I'd love to put a > cache (or a worm when prices come down on high capacity guys) on an ssd > in plan 9, but I am expecting it to quit after a few months for some > re

Re: [9fans] cheep ssds

2011-08-03 Thread Jack Norton
erik quanstrom wrote: i just got a 40gb intel ssd for building up a new file server. i really wasn't expecting 275 out of a theoretical 300mb/s. maybe i forgot how to count and it's actually 27.5. :-) blakely# time dd -if /dev/sdE0/data -of /dev/null -bs 512k -count 100 100+0 records in 100+0

Re: [9fans] cheep ssds

2011-08-03 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 03 of August 2011 15:16:00 erik quanstrom wrote: > i think the speed ratio of 2:1 is not correct. > > first, you must be assuming udma 133. i have never seen a udma 133 target. > http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&Subcategory > =14&Description=&Type

Re: [9fans] cheep ssds

2011-08-03 Thread erik quanstrom
> On Wednesday 03 of August 2011 05:53:51 erik quanstrom wrote: > > i just got a 40gb intel ssd for building up a new file > > server. i really wasn't expecting 275 out of a theoretical > > 300mb/s. maybe i forgot how to count and it's actually > > 27.5. :-) > > ah, marketing. megabits per seco

Re: [9fans] cheep ssds

2011-08-02 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 03 of August 2011 05:53:51 erik quanstrom wrote: > i just got a 40gb intel ssd for building up a new file > server. i really wasn't expecting 275 out of a theoretical > 300mb/s. maybe i forgot how to count and it's actually > 27.5. :-) ah, marketing. megabits per second, rather tha

[9fans] cheep ssds

2011-08-02 Thread erik quanstrom
i just got a 40gb intel ssd for building up a new file server. i really wasn't expecting 275 out of a theoretical 300mb/s. maybe i forgot how to count and it's actually 27.5. :-) blakely# time dd -if /dev/sdE0/data -of /dev/null -bs 512k -count 100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 0.00u 0.01s