On 15/08/16 21:49, Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote:
On Monday, 15 August 2016 9:38:00 PM AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
And I just learnt that the flash used in most SSDs is pretty much equivalent these days; however, Samsung has the best firmware/management of the flash -- so it is the one to go for.
Sam McLeod (who did the awesome talk about building high performance storage for LUV last year) said to me (via Twitter):
# don't touch anything Samsung in our experience. Go Micron M600 # or Sandisk Extreme Pro
He was pretty down on their firmware. However, Peter Tonoli from unimelb said he'd not had any issues with Samsung 850pro's, but he takes care to never run them over 50% occupancy.
Personally I'd either go with Samsung or Intel these days, nothing else. I did pick up a SanDisk drive, and for whatever reason it was slow enough at being detected that when I tried it in my laptop (Lenovo T430) the system would fail to detect it from poweron. Oddly that same drive is now in an L430 and working fine (although the L430 isn't in UEFI mode, so possibly gives a bit more time for POST). With Intel you also need to be careful about whether it's one of the drives that has an Intel controller (which are fine), or one they rebadge (less so). I'm looking forward to the Intel Optane (AKA "X-Point") drives, but they're probably not going to be cheap when they first come out, and we should probably give them a year or two to work the early bugs out.