On 4/7/14 3:08 PM, "Lockwood, Glenn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >The problem we faced was unique to production-scale resources. Buying >commodity desktop SSDs is fine if you are just buying a handful, but we >were having major reliability and performance problems right out of the >box at-scale. > >In our case, we weeded out most of the cheapo SSDs in testing before >production hardware ever hit the floor, but our vendor made the decision >to improve their cost margins by going for the minimum spec that would >make acceptance. It turned out that the advertised >reliability/performance did not match the delivered product, and they had >to replace hundreds/thousands of SSDs with Intel's enterprise line. At >the time, Intel's hardware was the only technology that could pass >acceptance testing. So this wasn't really a wearout or life issue, but more a DOA/poor build quality issue? > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
