On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:12:58PM +, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
> Consider something
> like a credit card processing system. This is going to have a lot of "add
> at the end" transaction data. As opposed to, say, a library catalog where
> books are checked out essentially at random, and you upda
On 04/07/2014 04:40 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
On 04/07/2014 03:44 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
As long as you use enterprise-grade SSDs (e.g., Intel's stuff) with
overprovisioning, the nand endurance shouldn't be an issue over the
lifetime of a cluster. We've used SSDs as our nodes' system d
On 4/8/14, 11:05 AM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Joe Landman
wrote:
From a general purpose point of view, Intel and Samsung make great lower end
devices. SanDisk makes great higher end devices. We are working on getting
some Toshiba's and a few others for ent
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Joe Landman
wrote:
>
> From a general purpose point of view, Intel and Samsung make great lower end
> devices. SanDisk makes great higher end devices. We are working on getting
> some Toshiba's and a few others for enterprise to ultra-high-end testing.
>
> With s
On 4/8/14, 10:25 AM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote:
Even in an enterprise environment, there's some very different write
patterns possible. A "scratch" device might get written randomly,
while a
"logging" device will tend to be written sequentially. Consider
something
like a credit card processi
On 04/08/2014 10:12 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
On 4/7/14 6:48 PM, "Ellis H. Wilson III" wrote:
On 04/07/2014 09:34 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
Was it wear out, or some other failure mode?
And if wear out, was it because consumer SSDs have lame leveling or
something like that?
Here's how I r
On 4/7/14 6:48 PM, "Ellis H. Wilson III" wrote:
>On 04/07/2014 09:34 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>>> Was it wear out, or some other failure mode?
>>>
>>> And if wear out, was it because consumer SSDs have lame leveling or
>>> something like that?
>>>
>> Here's how I remember it. You took the cap
