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I used SSDS in a large datacenter database deployment some five years ago. Intel drives with sanforce controllers. Of the thousands of drives I installed I had
by true_tuna 8y ago
I used SSDS in a large datacenter database deployment some five years ago. Intel drives with sanforce controllers. Of the thousands of drives I installed I had a handful of DOA another handful of failures when writing maxlba to overprovision by 20% and to export wear smart value.
And after a year or two exactly one drive that needed to be pulled a because max re-write reported it was at 70% or write lifespan.
Compared to the 10k rpm sas drives that had an annual failure rate of 1 in 20 I counted it a win. Especially because I was getting 4x the performance out of 4 drives as I used to get from 12.
Then again there was a huge difference in failure between people who do SSD well (intel and sandisk) and manufacturers who did things... less well. I remember the OCZ controller would crash and block write operations for a half second while it rebooted. Kinda messed with the write throughout numbers.