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

Fri Jul 13 01:43:58 MSD 2012

4 10K drives cannot do the IOPS of any remotely decent SSD. We're talking what, 600-800 IOPS max on 4 spindles versus 20,000 IOPS at the low end for a modern SSD? (Like a $200 one.)

As far as lifetime, a decent server-class SSD should be fine. Where you draw the line between junky consumer and server-grade is somewhat open to discussion, but at least at the FusionIO end, I don't think the lifetime should be a concern.

Don't let cheap SSD vendors with crap firmware colour an entire class of technology.

-Michael

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From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Todd Bailey
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:03 PM
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Anyone want my SSD tips on the FS Wiki?

I'm using 4 SAS 2.5 73 gb 10K rpm drives raid 5 (205 gb formatted total) on a HP P600 controller The machine boots faster that a single 64gb ssd
device used briefly for testing.   Just as fast, quiet, cheap, reliable
and long life.  Best of both worlds.

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 16:29 +0000, Michael Giagnocavo wrote:
> Just as a side note for those that have not heard: Once you go SSD on 
> your work machine, you can never go back. My Windows 7 laptop boots 
> faster than my Android phone.
> 
> -Michael
> 
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> [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of 
> Mario G
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:16 AM
> To: FreeSWITCH Users Help
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Anyone want my SSD tips on the FS 
> Wiki?
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> 
> Ok been working on it all day yesterday and should be done by Monday, 
> will post a new subject when done.
> 
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> 
> MC - I did not put the SSD into my FS Mac mini, it was another Linux 
> machine. I spent months learning beforehand because I was thinking 
> about it then I got a free Intel 320 160G. I just thought some of the 
> FS folks might like to see what I did and learned. I replaced a WDC 
> Velociraptor and this is WAAYY FASTER!
> 
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> On Jul 12, 2012, at 5:17 AM, Anita Hall wrote:
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> Count me in! We are using SSD in an embedded system. 
> 
> regards,
> Anita
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> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Abdul Basit <basit.engg at gmail.com>
> 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.
> 
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> --
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> Regards,
> 
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> 
> Abdul Basit
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> 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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