[Freeswitch-users] Anyone want my SSD tips on the FS Wiki?

[Todd Bailey]

SSD and Long Life should never be used in the same sentence.


On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 05:28 +0500, Abdul Basit wrote:
>  i m definitely interested and appreciate you willingness of knowledge
> sharing. Love hardware capacity, scalability and long life so waiting
> for the information you collected.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Abdul Basit
>  
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Muhammad Naseer Bhatti
> <nbhatti at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Depends on what brand the drive is. We are using a lot of SSDs
>         in a
>         huge enterprise environment and never faced issues. On average
>         each
>         SSD is giving us around 2000 IOPS with a combine output of
>         around
>         32000 IOPS and we will be upgrading to 32 soon. Currently have
>         16.
>         
>         For smaller scale, I am using one in my Macbook, and never had
>         any
>         issues. Reaches upto 5000 IOPS and data transfer rate of
>         around 200+
>         MBps. Have been using a quite a few in the servers running for
>         FS.
>         They work very well and never deceived. Surely, the thread is
>         a good
>         one, if the OP posts the draft :)
>         
>         Thanks.
>         
>         On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Todd Bailey
>         <toddb at toddbailey.net> wrote:
>         >
>         > Or 4 million micro seconds what ever comes first.
>         >
>         > I tried using a 90 gb ssd on linux and being curious, ran
>         > phoronix-test-suite against the drive and with 15 minutes
>         the drive was
>         > non operational,  rma'd the device and tried again,  same
>         results.
>         >
>         > returned for refund and never looked back...
>         >
>         > SSD devices may be fast but in a server environment
>         reliability is key.
>         > currently running raid 5 across the enterprise.
>         >
>         >
>         > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 12:15 -0400, Chris Ferreira wrote:
>         >> I would most definitely be interested in this. I have been
>         using SSD's
>         >> for a number of different applications and never had a
>         problem. Am I
>         >> missing something? And you talk about increasing its life?
>         Most of the
>         >> SSDs I have used are rated at about 4 Million Hours which
>         is like 456
>         >> Years (which I don't believe).
>         >>
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> Very interested to hear what you have to say.
>         >>
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> Thanks,
>         >>
>         >> -Chris
>         >>
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>         >> On Jul 11, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Mario G <mario_fs at mgtech.com>
>         wrote:
>         >>
>         >> > I recently spent a lot of time learning how to keep an
>         SSD fast and increase its life. It took a ton of research and
>         I combined a lot of info from several sources to install the
>         SSD. Turns out, just installing an SSD and using it as an HDD
>         without doing anything else is not a good idea. Although the
>         topic is not specific to FreeSwitch I am wondering how many
>         out there would like me to put together a FS wiki page fr
>         tuning an SSD. It's a lot of work so I won't do it unless
>         there are enough requests or the developers want it.
>         >> > Mario G
>         >> >
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