Re: [Beowulf] SSD performance

2018-07-21 Thread Jonathan Engwall
I built up a couple r610 dells with the idea that they would boot from ssd through a usb external drive. The cheap external drives might be the real culprits. I have to think about that. The latest drive to fail was a Kingston and I think it was new. There is a write limit on some ssds? Lately I ha

Re: [Beowulf] SSD performance

2018-07-21 Thread John Hearns via Beowulf
I forgot the main purpose of the Internet. My bad. >You don't say for which purpose the SSDs are being used. Storing cat pics? On 22 July 2018 at 07:41, John Hearns wrote: > You don't say for which purpose the SSDs are being used. > In your laptop? > As system disks in HPC compute nodes? > Journ

Re: [Beowulf] SSD performance

2018-07-21 Thread John Hearns via Beowulf
You don't say for which purpose the SSDs are being used. In your laptop? As system disks in HPC compute nodes? Journalling drives in a parallel filesystem? Data storage drives in a parallel filesystem? Over on the CEPH mailing list there are regular topics on choice of SSDs. I would advise going o

Re: [Beowulf] SSD performance

2018-07-21 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
What Ones are you currently getting? Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Jul 2018, at 05:42, Jonathan Engwall > wrote: > > I am not happy with the SSDs I am using. I am buying another sad every couple > weeks. > Fast sure, but my productivity right now is zero. > Are there any recommendations on reli

[Beowulf] SSD performance

2018-07-21 Thread Jonathan Engwall
I am not happy with the SSDs I am using. I am buying another sad every couple weeks. Fast sure, but my productivity right now is zero. Are there any recommendations on reliable ssd brands? Jonathan Engwall ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org spo