On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Jesper Krogh wrote:
> On 2011-03-29 06:13, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>
>> My own experience with MLC drives is that write cycle expectations are
>> more or less as advertised. They do go down (hard), and have to be
>> monitored. If you are writing a lot of data this
On 2011-03-29 06:13, Merlin Moncure wrote:
My own experience with MLC drives is that write cycle expectations are
more or less as advertised. They do go down (hard), and have to be
monitored. If you are writing a lot of data this can get pretty
expensive although the cost dynamics are getting bet
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Andy wrote:
> This might be a bit too little too late though. As you mentioned there really
> isn't any real performance improvement for the Intel SSD. Meanwhile,
> SandForce (the controller that OCZ Vertex is based on) is releasing its next
> generation control
This might be a bit too little too late though. As you mentioned there really
isn't any real performance improvement for the Intel SSD. Meanwhile, SandForce
(the controller that OCZ Vertex is based on) is releasing its next generation
controller at a reportedly huge performance increase.
Is the
OK. Thanks.
Uwe
On 28 March 2011 08:02, Greg Smith wrote:
> On 03/24/2011 05:19 AM, Uwe Bartels wrote:
>
>> It would also be good to see how many buffers were written by backend
>> processes grouped by Buffer Access Strategy - to better distinguish evil
>> backend writes from wanted backend wr
Today is the launch of Intel's 3rd generation SSD line, the 320 series.
And they've finally produced a cheap consumer product that may be useful
for databases, too! They've put 6 small capacitors onto the board and
added logic to flush the write cache if the power drops. The cache on
these w
