Thank you. That helps a great deal. I have ordered a couple of the Samsung PM853T models to do some testing.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Shelby <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes indeed. > > We've been very happy with the Samsung 840 PRO/DC and Intel DC S3500/S3700 > series drives. I wouldn't put anything else in a server that uses a > consumer / commonly available drive. There are multiple vendors that > produce enterprise quality drives and you'll pay for it. We're standing up > a new DB server running on Dell's new R730xd platform that will have two > PERC H730Ps each with 6x1TB Samsung 850PRO in RAID 10 and available hot > spares. We're expecting consistent IOPS >30,000 and those new controllers > support passing TRIM commands to SSD which should keep the performance on > par with new. Be very aware of what controllers will or will not pass TRIM > or other garbage collection to SSDs. Older controllers do not support this > and it's still spotty on some of the more recent ones. > > The Samsung Pro/DC and Intel DC series drives fail in a graceful state > that most other consumer drives don't when the flash on these drives > reaches usable life they lock in to a read only mode. Provided you don't > experience outright controller failure it's a very handy feature to have. > Samsung and Intel both produce drives that use different types of flash > memory to fit different needs, you should take a look at what your > read/write ratios will be and how you plan on utilizing the drives and see > what fits for your use case. > > > Nathan Shelby > Lead Systems Engineer – Quote Wizard <https://quotewizard.com/> > [email protected] / 206-753-2626 > Malo Periculosam Libertatem Quam Quietum Servitium > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Are any of you replacing existing spinning drives with SSDs on your >> servers? If so, which SSDs are you choosing? Are you running RAID for >> safety? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Richard >> > >
