From: gnuoytr@rcn.com
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Reports from SSD purgatory
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:48:09 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <201108241848.061232@ms14.lnh.mail.rcn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E49B0A0.2060705@2ndQuadrant.com>
References: <4E49B0A0.2060705@2ndQuadrant.com>
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:49:52 -0400
>From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org (on behalf of Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>)
>Subject: [PERFORM] Reports from SSD purgatory
>To: "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
>
>News update for anyone else who's trapped like me, waiting for a fix to
>the Intel 320 SSD bug where they can truncate themselves to 8MB. Over
>the weekend Intel has announced a firmware fix for the problem is done,
>and is due to ship "within the next two weeks":
>http://communities.intel.com/thread/24121
>
>On the larger SSD reliability front, Tom's Hardware surveyed heavy SSD
>users they're friendly with who use Intel drives. The most interesting
>data came from Softlayer:
>http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-6.html
>
>This supports two claims I made before based on my private data that
>were controversial:
>
>-Annualized SSD failure rates are not significantly lower than
>traditional drives in the first couple of years. Jury is still out on
>whether they will spike upwards starting at 3 years as mechanical ones do.
>
>-The most common source of dead drives is sudden, catastrophic
>electronics failure. These are not predicted by SMART, and have nothing
>to do with hitting the drive's wear limits.
It's worth knowing exactly what that means. Turns out that NAND quality is price specific. There's gooduns and baduns. Is this a failure in the controller(s) or the NAND?
Also, given that PG is *nix centric and support for TRIM is win centric, having that makes a big difference in performance.
>
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>
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