Thanks for the info. The articles were really useful but still seems I have to do my own testing to find the right page size? I thought for large indexes there would already be some tests done in SOLR community.
Side note: We are heavily using Microsoft technology (.NET etc) for development so by looking at all the pros/cons decided to stick with Windows. Wasn't rude ;) On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 3/18/2014 7:39 AM, Salman Akram wrote: > > This SSD default size seems to be 4K not 16K (as can be seen below). > > > > Bytes Per Sector : 512 > > Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096 > > Bytes Per Cluster : 4096 > > Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024 > > The *sector* size on a typical SSD is 4KB, but the *page* size is a > lower level detail, and is more likely to be 16KB, especially on a very > large SSD. > > The Micron P420m is actually mentioned specifically in the SSD article I > linked, and a table in part 2 states that its page size is 16KB, with a > block size of 8MB. > > Possibly rude side note: Windows? Really? > > Thanks, > Shawn > > -- Regards, Salman Akram
