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

Mario G mario_fs at mgtech.com
Fri Jul 13 19:46:15 MSD 2012 

I agree, I have friends who work at companies that provide embedded systems to the military and they only use SSDs that use low power to reduce heat and increase reliability. They say no HDD can match the overall reliability. As for speed, every article I read says even the cheapest SSDs beat the best HDDs.

On Jul 12, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Michael Giagnocavo wrote:

> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org
>> [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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ok been working on it all day yesterday and should be done by Monday, 
>> will post a new subject when done.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 12, 2012, at 5:17 AM, Anita Hall wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Count me in! We are using SSD in an embedded system. 
>> 
>> regards,
>> Anita
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> 
>> 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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