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Call me crazy, but I don't think that a Crucial MX300 is the best choice for an enterprise worthy ZFS drive. I get what the author is concerned about, but I wou
by Severian 8y ago
Call me crazy, but I don't think that a Crucial MX300 is the best choice for an enterprise worthy ZFS drive. I get what the author is concerned about, but I wouldn't be that surprised that a consumer level SSD failed in what sounds like a heavily used fileserver.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoTo be fair, the 'I' in RAID stands for 'inexpensive'.
- minikites 8y agoI think a lot of people know the I as "Independent" these days since RAID is usually an enterprise feature with enterprise costs.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoModern takes on RAID are built in to home OSs these days, and consumer grade NAS devices are pretty common. It really isn't a fancy enterprise-only technology at all.
- pythonpatrol 8y agoCrucial? I can tell you most of them got spectek's chips inside, no wonder why they fail.
- gruez 8y agowhat's wrong with spectek chips?
- happycube 8y agoThey're Micron's B-stock that didn't pass quality tests. i.e. they'll probably die sooner.
- teh_klev 8y agoI've been running Crucial SSD's for years. One of them is already around seven years old (yes, yes I do backups). So the citation of some evidence is required to back up your claim.
- olavgg 8y agoThe most scary thing about using consumer grade SSD's in a file server is the amount of writes you do. For many use cases this is fine.
- Severian 8y agoVery true. The slack reserve space, RAM buffer (and/or battery), and NAND process are the main things that make an enterprise drive. The author doesn't specify a metric for writes, but based on the MX300 specs that I find, it can go up to 219 GB/day for the 2TB drives he uses, or 87 GB/day for a couple of the 525GB he still had. He doesn't specify though.