On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 01:21:26PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandol...@esri.com> wrote: > > It seems to perform similarly to the X-25E as well (3300 IOPS for > > random writes). Perhaps the drive can be overprovisioned as well? > > > > My impression was that Intel was classifying the 3xx series as > > non-Enterprise however. Even with the SLC. > > I don't think the 311 has any over-provisioning (other than the 7% > from GB -> GiB conversion). I believe it is an X25-E with only 5 > channels populated. The upcoming enterprise models are MLC based and > have greater over-provisioning AFAIK. > > The 20GB 311 only costs ~ $100 though. The 100GB Intel 710 costs ~ $650. > > The 311 is a good choice for home or budget users, and it seems that > the 710 is much bigger than it needs to be for slog devices.
My thoughts exactly. If the 311 is aimed at home users (wear-wise in _addition_ to marketing wise), then it doesn't really seem there is a suitable "Intel" replacement for the X-25E as far as an slog device is concerned. The drives are all way too big. :) We are currently looking at using the 320 or 710 overprovisioned (though the latter is likely more than we want to spend). Ray _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
