Recent content by ornia

How do the C300 (and likely C400 as well) handle encrypted data? I would like to use them as boot drives, but I keep my OSes encrypted using dm-crypt/LUKS. I have read mention that certain drives or controllers have worse performance handling (either reading or writing?) encrypted data. How...

I agree with you, but it seems that software RAID under GNU+Linux using mdadm does not support TRIM in RAID-1 as of yet. So if I opt for Crucial C300s or Corsair Performance 3 series, then I will be unable to have TRIM in RAID-1 for now. This seems to me to be somewhat of a deal-breaker for...

Did you choose this setup for any particular reason? Did you only buy one SSD first, then the second later, or did you not want to bother setting up RAID-1? The server I am building will be co-located on a 1000MiB/s connection, and I will not even be in the same country as it all of the time...

Like I said originally, the drives will contain all operating systems and applications. There will be many paravirtualised operating systems using Xen as the virtualisation hypervisor system, and within each GNU+Linux OS all of the / directories will have all installed software packages and...

Mostly interested in the dramatic increased performance gains over hard drives, especially with OS and server daemon load times. Also the improved reliability by removing moving parts from the drives... standard reasons why SSDs are better than HDDs and the entire industry will move to solid...

I've read mention of other possibilities of SSD failure that involve portions of the drive other than NAND flash writing wear-down. However, I am not terribly educated on what these might be, or how often they might occur to cause drive failure. Seeing as the SSD(s) in my server will be the...

Oops, accidental double-post... can't seem to find where to entirely delete a post.

Not terrible high, I imagine. The data on the SSD(s) will be numerous small writes, as they will contain the operating systems. I will have GNU+Linux as the host OS with a handful of guest OSes in LVM2 logical volumes. The data being written to these will be software package updates...

Traditionally when building servers, I have designed them to have two separate storage arrays: 1) a RAID-1 array for the boot drives, containing all virtualised operating systems and applications 2) a RAID-6 array for large amounts of data I wish to continue with this design...