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02-23-2012, 06:44 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Best SSD drives for dedicated and Raid
We are looking at adding SSD drives to our dedicated server offers, am curious what drives people are finding to work the best as a standalone drive and as a Raid drive?
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02-23-2012, 08:25 PM #2
Intel 320 series SSD, hands down. Great reliability, great performance, good pricing.
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02-23-2012, 09:01 PM #4Private Citizen
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Corsair Pro series are RAID friendly.
http://www.corsair.com/ssd/performan...eries-ssd.html
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02-23-2012, 09:14 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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I'm extremely happy with Crucial's M4. Even put them in my macbook and computer.
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02-23-2012, 10:04 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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We use OCZ Vertex2 and Vertex3 without problems but be warned, I have read lots of people do have problems. WMMV....
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We have a couple hundred ocz vertex 2's in production now and have been using them for the last 2 years or so. Only recently have we seen problems. Problems being we had a double drive failure knock out a raid 1 array. Their serials were about 100 units apart. We also had 2 instances in the last 3 months where a drive dropped off the controller. Popping it out and back in and it came alive fine. I believe that's the sandforce controller issue others see and are reporting as the typical windows bsod. We've since switched to intel 320's.
Having a double drive raid failure when the serials are that close is interesting to note. It leads me to believe that you have to be more careful with ssd raid because failed drives are likely to occur in batches. We check serials now and make sure not to put them close to one another in the same array.
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02-23-2012, 11:08 PM #12THE Web Hosting Master
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The only SSDs I trust are Intel (other than the 520's as I just don't like the history of the Sandforce controllers) and Samsung (the only company that controls the entire product, cache memory, controller, NAND, and firmware).
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02-23-2012, 11:25 PM #14THE Web Hosting Master
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Even though the 520 is an Intel and went through 1+ year of QA with Intel, it is still based on the Sandforce controller. I believe they fixed many of the issues, but with the general poor long term reliability of the Sandforce controllers I simply don't trust them. I've already seen reports od BSOD with those on Windows, which is one of the common Sandforce issues.
Samsungs have been extremely reliable as well, and we're looking to use Samsung 830's instead of Intel 520's ourselves. Samsung is the only company with full control over the ENTIRE manufacturing process, and can thus control quality throughout, building just an extremely solid unified system. If you are fine with SATA II and a little slower overall, the Intel 320 is still a great SSD.Karl Zimmerman - Founder & CEO of Steadfast
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02-23-2012, 11:28 PM #15Disabled
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Anand says in the article link I posted that Intel created their own firmware for sandforce and retains the limited rights to use it (regarding the 520's). In their tests they were not able to replicate the BSOD problem exhibited by the other sandforce controllers using non-intel funded firmware development.
How do you get your hands on the samsungs? Meaning through what outlet can I purchase them right now?
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02-23-2012, 11:38 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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the major advantage of 320 series over 520 is that 320's have "super capacitors" on PCB which allows all data in buffer RAM to be saved in the event of power loss (it's called "power Safe Write Cache"). 520 does not have it so that data in buffer is not protected. how important is this? well, none of the SATA/SAS mechanical drives nor the Intel original X25-E have it either! so, judgement call is yours to make.
if you fixed your eyes on Intel SSD's, this would be a must-read article:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5518/a...-of-intel-ssds
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02-23-2012, 11:44 PM #18THE Web Hosting Master
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Not being able to replicate the issues in short term testing does not equate to having the same long term reliability. If you're dealing with faults in hardware design, you're not going to be able to correct all those issues with firmware.
If I were to buy a Sandforce, it would be an Intel, but with the long term reliability of the Sandforce already proven to be bad, I'd need to see long term reliability of the Intel 520 to counter that.
A lot of places should have the Samsung 830's, they're readily available on NewEgg, etc.Last edited by KarlZimmer; 02-23-2012 at 11:47 PM.
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Yes, people had gone with Samsung because of reliability, not speed. Now, they're not the absolute fastest, but they've kept the reliability and are comparable speed-wise. I'll take reliability with a small performance hit any day. Right now, they're the only thing I'd call an "enterprise ready" SATA3 SSD.
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02-23-2012, 11:52 PM #22THE Web Hosting Master
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Samsung 830's are readily available, NewEgg, etc. - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147133
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02-24-2012, 12:03 AM #24THE Web Hosting Master
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Right now, yes. Intel 520 would be #2 behind that.
To note, my priorities may not match with the priorities of others, but to me, reliability is far and away #1. In addition, this is based largely on reading/research right now. We have really just started our own internal testing on the Samsung 830's.Karl Zimmerman - Founder & CEO of Steadfast
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