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Maintenance (TRIM) of SSDs in HW RAIDs
I have 2 ARECA 8040 HW-RAIDs, with 8 SSDs each. One is RAID10 with Intel 520 SSDs, the second is RAID5 with Samsung 840 SSDs. Both are connected to the Server with one shared LSI Logic / Symbios Logic ...
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TRIM persistence across reboots
Let's say we have an ext4 filesystem image we dumped onto an SSD (with dd). After a few mounts we learn that we should use the discard flag to emit TRIM commands to the drive. As it is unclear ...
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Software Raid1 with Trim [duplicate]
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Possible to get SSD TRIM (discard) working on ext4 + LVM + software RAID in Linux?
I have two Crucial C300 SSD disks that I would like to use as my OS disks in my new ...
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Does SSD TRIM (discard) work on ext4 + nested LVM in Linux? [duplicate]
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Possible to get SSD TRIM (discard) working on ext4 + LVM + software RAID in Linux?
I will be setting up KVM guests on a computer of mine soon. I plan to run Ubuntu ...
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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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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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Is TRIM passed through a LVM-based PV Xen domU to the underlying SSD
Scenario:
-- Debian Xen dom0
-- SSD drive setup as LVM PV/single Volume Group.
-- Debian pv_ops-based domU setup on LVM logical volume.
-- File system inside domU is ext4 with discard option enabled.
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Ssd TRIM/DISCARD details
I am writing a script and I have a few questions about the inner workings of the TRIM command. If TRIM is issued for an entirely empty (zeroed) erase block, does the garbage collector still delete the ...
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Do I need to trim my SSD? How?
I have been using a pair of Intel 320 in RAID 1 on my busy Ubuntu server for about 4 month. While the disk usage never reached 50% of the capacity, but I FEEL that the server has become less ...
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TRIM in centos 5.X?
I've got a bunch of centos 5 boxes with Intel X-25 drives (x25-m in dev, x25-e in prod, I think). We're seeing severely degraded disk performance on one of our dev boxes (which easily does 5+ gb of ...
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Using SSD drives in a raid in an operation involving little to no deletes
From what I've been able to understand when reading about the case with Solid State drives and raids, the problem is that TRIM cannot be used for them in a raid configuration, thus, resulting in the ...
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Verify TRIM support with BtrFS on SSD
We are looking into using BtrFS on an array of SSD disks and I have been asked to verify that BtrFS does in fact perform TRIM operations upon deleting a file. So far I have been unable to verify that ...
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Is TRIM possible on SSD disks in RAID 1?
I am going to build a new server to handle a high-traffic php/mysql site. I am going to use SSD disks to benefit from fast random read performance but really got confused about choosing the right SSD ...
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Does Ubuntu 10.04 support TRIM for SSD?
I read here that:
[T]o use TRIM, you need a OS that supports it, such as Windows 7, Mac
OS X and some variants of Linux being the only ones as far as I know.
You also need a SSD that supports ...
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SSD TRIM Support in Snow Leopard
Does Mac OS X Snow Leopard officially support SSD TRIM yet? If not, is there an expected availability? Also, is there a brand of SSD that is most compatible with a late-2009 Mac Pro?
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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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SSD on Vmware ESXI 4 (TRIM? Good Idea?)
I just posted about finding bottle necks and have narrowed it down to having way too many VMs on my machine on one 15K SAS drive. I have plenty of cores and plenty of ram.
So I am planning on putting ...
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SSD TRIM (discard) problems with ext4 on Crucial C300 SSDs with CentOS 5.5
Playing around with using a modern kernel (2.6.37 currently) on an older OS (CentOS 5.5) so we can get TRIM (discard) working on our SSDs (Crucial C300s).
The most recent hdparm (9.37) concurs that ...
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Possible to get SSD TRIM (discard) working on ext4 + LVM + software RAID in Linux?
We use RAID1+0 with md on Linux (currently 2.6.37) to create an md device, then use LVM to provide volume management on top of the device, and then use ext4 as our filesystem on the LVM volume groups.
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SSD Harddisk and linux distro with TRIM support
I have a Corsair Force Series SSD harddrive which I plan to put in a 1 unit linux box as a linux server.
The server itself will be making a lot of random reads and very little writes, which makes SSD ...
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Trim on intel x25-m G2 when connected by iscsi
I am running a windows 7 vm on esxi connected to x25-M G2 via iscsi, which is running starwind iscsi on server 2008. Is trim a function of the vm OS or the iscsi server OS or not applicable with ...
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Linux tool to reset Intel X25 SSDs wear leveling tables?
I'm aware of the DOS utility to "Reset" an Intel SSD to factory settings, but I'd rather not shut down my system to do this to my SSDs.
Supposedly newer kernels support TRIM, but I haven't found any ...
