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From: Arjen van der Meijden <acmmailing@tweakers.net>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Intel 710 SSD test
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:33:45 +0200
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Anandtech took the trouble of doing that:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4902/intel-ssd-710-200gb-review

I think the main advantage of the 710 compared to the 320 is its much 
heavier over-provisioning and better quality MLC-chips. Both the 320 and 
710 use the same controller and offer similar performance. But 320GB of 
raw capacity is sold as a 300GB Intel 320 and as a 200GB Intel 710...

So if you don't need write-endurance, you can probably assume the 320 
will be more capacity and bang for the buck and will be good enough. If 
you're a worried about write-endurance, you should have a look at the 
710. You can obviously also only provision about 200GB of that 300GB 
320-ssd and thus increase its expected live span, but you'd still miss 
the higher quality MLC. Given the fact that you can get two 320's for 
the price of one 710, its probably always a bit difficult to actually 
make the choice (unless you want a fixed amount of disks and the best 
endurance possible for that).

Best regards,

Arjen

On 2-10-2011 5:22 Andy wrote:
> Do you have an Intel 320? I'd love to see tests comparing 710 to 320 and
> see if it's worth the price premium.
>
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> *From:* David Boreham <david_list@boreham.org>
> *To:* PGSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 1, 2011 10:39 PM
> *Subject:* [PERFORM] Suggestions for Intel 710 SSD test
>
>
> I have a 710 (Lyndonville) SSD in a test server. Ultimately we'll run
> capacity tests using our application (which in turn uses PG), but it'll
> take a while to get those set up. In the meantime, I'd be happy to
> entertain running whatever tests folks here would like to suggest,
> spare time-permitting.
>
> I've already tried bonnie++, sysbench and a simple WAL emulation
> test program I wrote more than 10 years ago. The drive tests at
> around 160Mbyte/s on bulk data and 4k tps for commit rate writing
> small blocks.
>
>
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