Solid-state drive refers to a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store its persistent data.
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SSD goes undetected/offline unless cold/hard booted
I've had a SSD for a little over a year on a sever. And once in a while, the server will bluescreen/be completely unresponsive. I've found out that it's the SSD going offline while the system is ...
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ASP.Net Webapp no performance improvement with huge server update
i am running an ASP.Net webapp on a dedicated server and recently made a significant update to the server hardware. To my surprise there is absolutely no performance increase.
old server:
single xeon ...
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Recommended filesystem, mysqltmp and filesystem related settings for a mysqld box running ssd + BIG ram + linux?
What is the recommended filesystem + mysqltmp location when dealing with a ssd based system that has some ram to spare?
Currently we run our mysqltmp folder on a 4gb tmpfs partition. Works great. But ...
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100% SSD usage Linux
Every 20-30 seconds my HDD usage goes to 100% (iostat).
iotop is showing that [flush-8:0] is using 99% HDD during these times. In between HDD usage is 1-10%.
iostat output:
04/22/2013 08:58:44 AM
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ext4 mkfs option for usb stick
i have an raspberry pi running the raspian (debian) linux. I need to add an "external" storage to store an mysql database and cache-directories for webdav mounts.
For that I like to mount an USB ...
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IO-intensive processes hang with iowait, but no activity going on
I have a bunch of IO-intensive jobs, and to boost performance, I just installed two SSDs in a compute server, one as a scratch file system, one as swap. After running for some time, all my processes ...
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Which partition utility's output is correct?
I have Fusion ioDrive2 785GB (731.088 GiB) SSD card.
The server is running Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.4 (RHEL6.4 compatible).
It is low-level formatted as such:
"80% factory capacity"
Format ...
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Is wiper.sh working?
I'm setting up a server running Ubuntu Precise, and I'm trying to verify if SSD TRIM is working.
fstrim is failing:
~ sudo fstrim -v /
fstrim: /: FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported
So ...
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How can I unfreeze an SSD connected to a remote server?
I don't have physical access to the machine, so I can't unplug the drive.
# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep frozen
frozen
The advice I've read elsewhere is to hotplug the drive, pull the ...
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Missing files in Windows 2008+VHD+SSD
I have running Windows 2008 Server machine on my SSD disc from VHD file. Today while I was working with Windows the 30% of files disappeared. There are only folders left and no files. I can't find ...
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SSD RAID 0 Setup for database application. What results should I look for?
I guess for database applications Random 4K Read/Write values of the SSD should be the one which should be checked first.
The question is how many queue depth should I check? As far as I see Random ...
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TRIM on OCZ RevoDrive 3 on CentOS
I've got an OCZ RevoDrive 3 mounted as / on my CentOS 6.3 box running kernel 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64. /boot is on a HDD since OCZ's driver apparently doesn't yet support booting directly to it. ...
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Considering MySQL on SSD with NTFS and Windows 2008
My company is considering migrating our MySQL data from an HDD array to an SSD, possibly the Intel SSD 520 series. We have a fairly large set of databases, some with upwards of 100 million rows, so we ...
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Adding SSD boot disk to machine running RAID 10
I have a server (dev rig) that runs Windows 2008 R2 and boots from a RAID 10 setup.
Now I want to add an SSD disk that will contain Windows 7 (could be dual boot, but dont plan on salvaging the ...
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VMware Esxi with Kingston SSDNow (No Trim but S.M.A.R.T Garbage Collection)
I recently posted asking whether Trim is supported on VMware Esxi (here) and found out it is NOT.
I've read that some SSDs, such as the Kingston SSDNow have hardware garbage collection. Would this ...
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Intel RS2BL080 hardware raid controller and SSDs
I am looking to upgrade my server that I am renting from my hosting provider to something faster.
What they are offering is an Intel RS2BL080 with up to 6 Intel 520 Series 240gb ssds
This is all they ...
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SSD Performance under Oracle
I have serious performance issues with oracle running over ssd.
I have two OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS drives (firmware 2.15). It runs on a INTEL C600 SATA Chipset.
Windows 2008 R2.
So the issue is ...
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RAID10 (4x SSD) system is super slow for 'dd' and 'find' commands
I have configured two servers each with 32 GByte RAM, 2x Xeon 2.4 GHz, 4x 480 GByte Intel SSD on a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i controller. They should be identical, however one of them has a very poor ...
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Formatting SD card with yaffs2 (using mtd2block)
An answer to my previous question: Making SD card corruption-proof suggested using mtd2block and formatting the SD card with yaffs2 or JFFS2.
I don't really have experience with creating images of ...
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Intel S2600CP4 SSD RAID 'corrupts' after a few boots
We've attempted to build an SSD RAID 1 using Intel server motherboards and SSDs a few times, using current and previous gen Intel boards.
We can normally get through installing Server 2008 R2 x64, ...
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Gigabyte 3CESL sata_nv can't properly detect Samsung 830 SSD - revalidation failed?
I'm trying to install a Samsung SSD 830 in a Gigabyte 3CESL-based system via the onboard sata_nv controller (MCP55); CentOS 6.3, 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64.
A large majority of the time, the drive is ...
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File-level SSD cache
My windows development environment gets pretty slow sometimes, it's a huge code base. I was thinking of speeding this up by using an SSD, but I want a way to do it while not requiring myself to carry ...
