[TriLUG] SSD-based NFS servers for production - ready for primetime?

[Ron Kelley]

Thanks Paul,

This is exactly what I am concerned about.  Some time ago, I tried the same thing using some cheap consumer-grade SSDs, and the project failed horribly.  I was hoping the newer generation of SSDs would be more reliable.  Guess I need to wait a little longer.


Thanks for the feedback!


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Ron Kelley
rkelleyrtp at gmail.com

On Jan 15, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Paul Bennett wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:08:22 -0500, Ron Kelley <rkelleyrtp at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
>> I have been scouring the 'net looking for information about spinning drives vs SSDs in an enterprise NFS deployment.  After a ton of research, I am torn between the 10K-RPM/15KRPM 2.5" Seagate drives and the Intel 510 SSDs.
> 
> I have mixed feelings about SSDs in the enterprise.
> 
> At home, I run four consumer-grade SSDs in RAID-0, and I have yet to have a problem.
> 
> At work, we tried to set up a bunch of enterprise-grade SSDs for a SAN, and drives were failing just about as fast as we could swap them out. It wasn't the controller (tested fine on rotary disks), it was definitely the drives. They just seemed to randomly crap themselves when presented with any kind of throughput that bumped up against what they claimed they were rated for. We spent a lot of man-hours and real money tying down the problem, and ended up RMA-ing the entire shipment, and falling back to 15Krpm SCSI.
> 
> Also at work, I run a single enterprise-grade SSD in my workstation, and so far, it has failed to fail.
> 
> Make of that what you will.
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