Prices going way up if I am picking Samsung SM863a for all data drives. 

We have many servers running on consumer grade sad drives and we never noticed 
any performance or any fault so far (but we never used ceph before)

I thought that is the whole point of ceph to provide high availability if drive 
go down also parellel read from multiple osd node   

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> On Jul 11, 2018, at 6:57 AM, Paul Emmerich <paul.emmer...@croit.io> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we‘ve no long-term data for the SM variant.
> Performance is fine as far as we can tell, but the main difference between 
> these two models should be endurance.
> 
> 
> Also, I forgot to mention that my experiences are only for the 1, 2, and 4 TB 
> variants. Smaller SSDs are often proportionally slower (especially below 
> 500GB).
> 
> Paul
> 
> Robert Stanford <rstanford8...@gmail.com>:
> 
>> Paul -
>> 
>>  That's extremely helpful, thanks.  I do have another cluster that uses 
>> Samsung SM863a just for journal (spinning disks for data).  Do you happen to 
>> have an opinion on those as well?
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:03 AM, Paul Emmerich <paul.emmer...@croit.io> 
>>> wrote:
>>> PM/SM863a are usually great disks and should be the default go-to option, 
>>> they outperform
>>> even the more expensive PM1633 in our experience.
>>> (But that really doesn't matter if it's for the full OSD and not as 
>>> dedicated WAL/journal)
>>> 
>>> We got a cluster with a few hundred SanDisk Ultra II (discontinued, i 
>>> believe) that was built on a budget.
>>> Not the best disk but great value. They have been running since ~3 years 
>>> now with very few failures and
>>> okayish overall performance.
>>> 
>>> We also got a few clusters with a few hundred SanDisk Extreme Pro, but we 
>>> are not yet sure about their 
>>> long-time durability as they are only ~9 months old (average of ~1000 write 
>>> IOPS on each disk over that time).
>>> Some of them report only 50-60% lifetime left.
>>> 
>>> For NVMe, the Intel NVMe 750 is still a great disk
>>> 
>>> Be carefuly to get these exact models. Seemingly similar disks might be 
>>> just completely bad, for
>>> example, the Samsung PM961 is just unusable for Ceph in our experience.
>>> 
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> 2018-07-11 10:14 GMT+02:00 Wido den Hollander <w...@42on.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 07/11/2018 10:10 AM, Robert Stanford wrote:
>>>> > 
>>>> >  In a recent thread the Samsung SM863a was recommended as a journal
>>>> > SSD.  Are there any recommendations for data SSDs, for people who want
>>>> > to use just SSDs in a new Ceph cluster?
>>>> > 
>>>> 
>>>> Depends on what you are looking for, SATA, SAS3 or NVMe?
>>>> 
>>>> I have very good experiences with these drives running with BlueStore in
>>>> them in SuperMicro machines:
>>>> 
>>>> - SATA: Samsung PM863a
>>>> - SATA: Intel S4500
>>>> - SAS: Samsung PM1633
>>>> - NVMe: Samsung PM963
>>>> 
>>>> Running WAL+DB+DATA with BlueStore on the same drives.
>>>> 
>>>> Wido
>>>> 
>>>> >  Thank you
>>>> > 
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