From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <50aeef7ec4d88fc34df93346b304d58c@rei2.9hal> In-Reply-To: <50aeef7ec4d88fc34df93346b304d58c@rei2.9hal> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Lyndon Nerenberg Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 18:47:45 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] anyone put their venti on an SSD? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 560a26e8-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2013-05-03, at 6:31 PM, cinap_lenrek@gmx.de wrote: > ocz seems to have a bad reputation. just googled "intel ssd broken" > and you get tons of results from people with broken/dead ocz ssd's. Disk drive reliability comes and goes with the seasons. For years I = only ran Seagate disks, and wouldn't go near WD. Then, after a 30% = failure run on < 1 year old Seagates, I switched back to WDs, which have = been flawless for me. So far. And Hitachi has drifted in and out of = the picture over the years. Ask anyone else and they will tell you a partially to completely = different story. At $80 for a couple of TB, I'll just toss them out = when they break. And while SSD isn't anywhere near that inexpensive = yet, it's finally down into the price range where you can call it = commodity disk. These days I'm paying a bit under $1/GB for SSD. = That's cheap enough that I can afford to experiment with smaller sized = drives in non-critical applications. I have a FreeBSD box that's been running off an OCZ Vertex 3 for a few = months now without issue. It does regular buildworlds and the like, so = I'm not gentle on the write volume. UFS TRIM support seems to work = fine, and if you chose to believe the smart stats, the (128 GB) disk is = error free after having many TB written to it. Many claim Sandforce = disks will blow up well before this. I'm beginning to think otherwise, = although my sample space is not statistically significant. I have a pair of Vertex 4s I haven't installed yet. I'm curious to see = how much (or if) the new OCZ controllers work. The benchmarks I've read = are impressive. I'm planning to put one into my Mac Mini. If MacOS and = its several hundred GB VM footprint can't kill an SSD, nothing will ;-) --lyndon