SSD VPS's what do hardware nodes you have use?

FRCorey

Those of you who offer SSD VPS's what drives are you using and why?

laaev

Let me help you.

@jhadley
@ramnode
@errantweb

Taz

@FTN_Kevin Go back to WHT

Nick_A

@FRCorey - Samsung 830s and Intel 320s. Because they rock.

Nick_A

@FTN_Kevin said: @ramnode

Oh yeah - I changed my username

Chief

@FRCorey said: Those of you who offer SSD VPS's what drives are you using and why?

Intel SSDs (LEB/LET is on Intel SSDs).
Samsung 830's 120GB and upwards, the smaller ones have considerably slower read/write.

eastonch

I heard the intel 320's sucked, or atleast, that's what I may of misheard :S! @Nick_A -- Higher Fail Rates, due to Firmware or something? OR was this resolved? I'm a tech channel follower and they've mentioned something about the Firmware on them intels.

Nick_A

Not the 320s. I haven't even heard of a 320 failure among any of the several providers I've used overtime. Maybe you're thinking of the Sandforce ones.

ShardHostSarah

There was an error in the 320 firmware which could cause the drive to pretty much brick in a power failure

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4646/intel-ssd-320-firmware-posted-addresses-bad-context-13x-error

eastonch

That was it @ShardHost, Thanks!

marrco

I think some provider here uses Intel 520, but i'm not 100% sure so i won't tell the name

ShardHostSarah

@eastonch said: That was it @ShardHost, Thanks!

I do what I can! Other than that, 320s are very solid drives. We rent 80 nodes with intel ssds, we've not have one failure in a whole year.

pic_micro23

Is there a good LEB cheap provider with USA servers (XEN/KVM 256MB for 5usd) ?

thx

Spencer

@ShardHost said: I do what I can! Other than that, 320s are very solid drives. We rent 80 nodes with intel ssds, we've not have one failure in a whole year.

Same here. We use intel 320 and have not had any issue at all. I love them.