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Developers do a lot of 4KB operations. Source files tend to be small as do database updates. The current market leader in this is the OCZ Vertex 3, a considera
by PKeeble 16y ago
Developers do a lot of 4KB operations. Source files tend to be small as do database updates.
The current market leader in this is the OCZ Vertex 3, a considerably faster drive than the Intel 510. Indeed intel's X25-M is better at 4KB operations than the new drive.
The 510 is a disappointment, get an OCZ Vertex instead, its cheaper and faster for the sorts of operations that matter. See anandtech for more details:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4202/the-intel-ssd-510-review http://www.anandtech.com/show/4202/the-intel-ssd-510-review
- coin 16y agoMy only concern with OCZ SSDs are initial quality. Just look Newegg's reviews, there a whole bunch of people who received DOA units or they fail after a month.
- wiredfool 16y agoI've had two OCZ ssds (granted, they were early models) that worked for a combined total of 2 weeks. My intel ones, though, have been solid. I keep looking at OCZ, thinking that they're a pretty good price for the performance, but not wanting to go down that rathole again.
- coin 16y agoMy only concern with OCZ SSDs are initial quality. Just look Newegg's reviews, there a whole bunch of people who received DOA units or they fail after a month.
- calebhicks 16y agoI keep looking, but can't find the Vertex 3 available anywhere. Any news on a release date?
- CognitiveLens 16y agoFrom what I've read, most sources are expecting late March availability.
- nickbp 16y agoOn the flip side, they apparently optimized for large sequential accesses, so this can be good drive if you do a lot of image/video editing.
- justinsb 16y agoAvoid OCZ. I had a Vertex 2 SSD fail after about two weeks. What's really a big gotcha is that it fails 100% immediately; there are no warning signs as there often are with a hard disk. I looked into it: I believe that there's actually an assertion that got hit in the OCZ firmware, and then it goes into a lock-down mode. However, there's no way for an end-user to exit this mode and recover any data (it simply won't respond to SATA commands), nor are OCZ willing to unlock it for you.
- moe 16y agoI had a Vertex 2 SSD fail after about two weeks. Anecdote != data. We have 8 of them in database-server for over 6 months without problems. Yes, we abuse them for a server workload.
- justinsb 16y agoSure, just sharing my personal experience. The pathological failure behaviour due to a software bug is not something I'd previously considered when choosing a drive. I hope you've got good backups.
- dablue 16y ago+1 for good backups My strategy from now on is to to mirror the SSD to a traditional HDD. That way, in the case of a SSD failure, we can accept the performance hit and still be able to run smoothly from the platter.
- justinsb 16y agoCheck out Facebook's FlashCache: they use SSDs as a cache on to traditional HDDs. You can have a read-cache to keep 'hot' data fast, and (if you want to) you can have a write cache that will buffer writes on SSD before flushing to HDD. I don't know whether it's ready for general (non-Facebook) use yet, but it is definitely one to watch.
- reeses 16y ago