Re: Intel 320 SSD info

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andy <angelflow(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: David Boreham <david_list(at)boreham(dot)org>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Intel 320 SSD info
Date: 2011-08-24 18:27:30
Message-ID: CAHyXU0zzGoVDnxLkJx7fVrmwOeb4b8L+D+t1-RC8dFTWeEK7TA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Andy <angelflow(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> According to the specs for database storage:
> "Random 4KB arites: Up to 600 IOPS"
> Is that for real? 600 IOPS is *atrociously terrible* for an SSD. Not much
> faster than mechanical disks.
> Has anyone done any performance benchmark of 320 used as a DB storage? Is it
> really that slow?

I have one experience with 320 SSD that replaced a 4 drive RAID 10 10k
raid. The site users and administrator in question gave summarized
the before/after experience thusly: "PFM" (Pure Magic). Workload-wise
it was a largish database (200gb+), 50% read, 50% write, mixed
olap/oltp.

merlin

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