Re: Tip of the week: don't use Intel 530 SSD's for journals

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My cluster is actually very fast without SSD drives.  Thanks for the
advice!

Michael Kuriger 
mk7193@xxxxxx
818-649-7235

MikeKuriger (IM)




On 11/25/14, 7:49 AM, "Mark Nelson" <mark.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 11/25/2014 09:41 AM, Erik Logtenberg wrote:
>> If you are like me, you have the journals for your OSD's with rotating
>> media stored separately on an SSD. If you are even more like me, you
>> happen to use Intel 530 SSD's in some of your hosts. If so, please do
>> check your S.M.A.R.T. statistics regularly, because these SSD's really
>> can't cope with Ceph.
>>
>> Check out the media-wear graphs for the two Intel 530's in my cluster.
>> As soon as those declining lines get down to 30% or so, they need to be
>> replaced. That means less than half a year between purchase and
>> end-of-life :(
>>
>> Tip of the week, keep an eye on those statistics, don't let a failing
>> SSD surprise you.
>
>This is really good advice, and it's not just the Intel 530s.  Most
>consumer grade SSDs have pretty low write endurance.  If you mostly are
>doing reads from your cluster you may be OK, but if you have even
>moderately high write workloads and you care about avoiding OSD downtime
>(which in a production cluster is pretty important though not usually
>100% critical), get high write endurance SSDs.
>
>Mark
>
>>
>> Erik.
>>
>>
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