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From: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>
To: Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: sthomas@optionshouse.com, Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Reliability with RAID 10 SSD and Streaming Replication
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 14:26:28 +1200
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On 23/05/13 14:22, Greg Smith wrote:
> On 5/22/13 10:04 PM, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> Make that quite a few capacitors (top right corner):
>> http://regmedia.co.uk/2013/05/07/m500_4.jpg
>
> There are some more shots and descriptions of the internals in the 
> excellent review at 
> http://techreport.com/review/24666/crucial-m500-ssd-reviewed
>
> That also highlights the big problem with this drive that's kept me 
> from buying one so far:
>
> "Unlike rivals Intel and Samsung, Crucial doesn't provide utility 
> software with a built-in health indicator. The M500's payload of SMART 
> attributes doesn't contain any references to flash wear or bytes 
> written, either. Several of the SMART attributes are labeled 
> "Vendor-specific," but you'll need to guess what they track and read 
> the associated values using third-party software."
>
> That's a serious problem for most business use of this sort of drive.
>

Agreed - I was thinking the same thing!

Cheers

Mark


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