Re: PFS mirroring insted of RAID Improved set up - need comments.

[Adam Vande More <amvandemore@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:

:Matt, any specific SSD's that you recommend or have found to

:work well with *BSD ?
:
:For good measure, please feel free to throw in any caveats as
:well.
:
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:thanks
:Saifi.

   I've only messed around with Intel and OCZ.  Of the two the Intel
   matches swapcache's mostly-read load characteristics better.
   The X25-V (40G MLC drive) has limited write bandwidth but
   is perfectly adequate.

I know the message was specifically addressed to Matt, but sent to the list ???

I have an X25-M on FreeBSD which is a ZFS cache device.  That setup has brought a phenomenal performance increase to my piddly 7200 1TB drives.

I also have a Transcend TS64GSSD25-M 64GB PATA MLC which breathed new life into an old 600m 1.4 ghz laptop.  It runs kde4 quite well.

The intel's support TRIM which is pretty useful, except that *BSD doesn't yet to my knowledge.  Both my drives were ebay snipes and I haven't had an issue with either although the intel preforms quite a bit better for several reasons.

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Adam Vande More