On 01/13/2015 06:19 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I wonder if it would be possible, after detaching SSD from the mirror in your step #2, to pass the device over to Linux running locally in KVM and 'secure erase' it from KVM other than physically disconnecting it from the smartos machine?
Maybe, but I highly doubt it. QEMU doesn't pass through the whole ATA device, it passes in a virtual ATA device backed by the blocks that live on the real ATA device. It might be interesting to do the experiment, though (you'd either have to create a VM with vmadm then muck around with zonecfg to pass through the disk, or launch QEMU from the GZ manually...)
Which Intel SSD are you using that you haven't had issues with? DC S3500 or S3700?
These machines are so old that it's the old 320 series ones. From what I've read[1], the S3500 is a decent successor to the 320 series. If you have the money, Joyent use the S3700s in some of their BOMs[2].
I doubt that we're getting particularly impressive performance from the 320s, but they've been reliable and performance has been consistent. The machine I ordered most recently will have S3500s, but it hasn't arrived yet so I have no data for you...
-Nahum [1]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-dc-s3500-review-6gbps,3529.html [2]http://eng.joyent.com/manufacturing/bom.html#tenderloin-c-joyent-compute-platform-2102-2u-32t-256gb-ssd ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
