Re: New server setup

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On 3/20/2013 6:44 PM, David Rees wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:37 PM, David Boreham <david_list@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You might want to evaluate the performance you can achieve with a single-SSD
(use several for capacity by all means) before considering a RAID card + SSD
solution.
Again I bet it depends on the application but our experience with the older
Intel 710 series is that their performance out-runs the CPU, at least under
our PG workload.
How many people are using a single enterprise grade SSD for production
without RAID? I've had a few consumer grade SSDs brick themselves -
but are the enterprise grade SSDs, like the new Intel S3700 which you
can get in sizes up to 800GB, reliable enough to run as a single drive
without RAID1? The performance of one is definitely good enough for
most medium sized workloads without the complexity of a BBU RAID and
multiple spinning disks...


You're replying to my post, but I'll raise my hand again :)

We run a bunch of single-socket 1U, short-depth machines (Supermicro chassis) using 1x Intel 710 drives (we'd use S3700 in new deployments today). The most recent of these have 128G and E5-2620 hex-core CPU and dissipate less than 150W at full-load.

Couldn't be happier with the setup. We have 18 months up time with no drive failures, running at several hundred wps 7x24. We also write 10's of GB of log files every day that are rotated, so the drives are getting beaten up on bulk data overwrites too.

There is of course a non-zero probability of some unpleasant firmware bug afflicting the drives (as with regular spinning drives), and initially we deployed a "spare" 10k HD in the chassis, spun-down, that would allow us to re-jigger the machines without SSD remotely (the data center is 1000 miles away). We never had to do that, and later deployments omitted the HD spare. We've also considered mixing SSD from two vendors for firmware-bug-diversity, but so far we only have one approved vendor (Intel).















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