| Test Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core i5-2500K (Sandy Bridge), 32 nm, 3.3 GHz, LGA 1155, 6 MB Shared L3, Turbo Boost Enabled |
| Motherboard | ASRock Z68 Extreme4, BIOS v1.4 |
| Memory | Kingston Hyper-X 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1333 @ DDR3-1333, 1.5 V |
| System Drive | OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB SATA 6Gb/s |
| Tested Drives | Crucial m4 64 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 0001 |
| Intel SSD 510 250 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 1.7 | |
| Intel SSD 320 300 GB SATA 3Gb/s, Firmware: 1.92 | |
| Crucial m4 128 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 0001 | |
| Crucial m4 256 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 0002 | |
| Crucial m4 512 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 0001 | |
| Crucial RealSSD 256 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 0006 | |
| OCZ Vertex 3 240 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 2.06 | |
| OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 2.06 | |
| OCZ Agility 3 120 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 2.06 | |
| OCZ Solid 3 120 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 2.06 | |
| Corsair Force 3 120 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 1.2 | |
| Corsair Force 120 GB SATA 3Gb/s, Firmware: 2.0 | |
| Adata S511 120 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 311A | |
| Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 319A | |
| Patriot Wildfire 120 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 319A | |
| Kingston SSDNow V+100 128 GB SATA 3Gb/s, Firmware: CJRA | |
| Western Digital VelociRaptor 300 GB (WD3000HLFS) SATA 3Gb/s | |
| G.Skill FM-25S2S 64 GB SATA 3Gb/s, Firmware: 02.1 | |
| Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500 GB SATA 3Gb/s | |
| Intel X25-M G2 160 GB SATA 3Gb/s, Firmware: 1.7 | |
| Samsung 470 256 GB SATA 3Gb/s, Firmware: AXMO | |
| Samsung 830 256 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: CXMO | |
| OCZ Vertex 2 (32nm) 120 GB SATA 3Gb/s, Firmware: 1.32 | |
| Kingston HyperX 240 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 320A | |
| Intel SSD 710 200 GB SATA 3Gb/s | |
| Micron RealSSD P300 200 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 0001 | |
| Corsair Force GT 240 GB SATA 6Gb/s, Firmware: 1.3 | |
| Kingston SSDNow V100 128 GB SATA 3Gb/s, Firmware: D110 | |
| Graphics | Palit GeForce GTX 460 1 GB |
| Power Supply | Seasonic 760 W, 80 PLUS |
| System Software and Drivers | |
| Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
| DirectX | DirectX 11 |
| Driver | Graphics: Nvidia 270.61 RST: 10.5.0.1022 Virtu: 1.1.101 |
| Benchmarks | |
|---|---|
| Tom's Hardware Storage Bench v1.0 | Trace-Based |
| Iometer 1.1.0 | # Workers = # Logical CPUs, 4 KB Random: LBA=16 GB, varying QDs, 128 KB Sequential: QD=1 |
| ATTO Benchmark | LBA=2 GB, QD=2 & 4, varying transfer sizes |
| PCMark 7 | Storage Suite |
| Enterprise Testing: Iometer Workloads | Read | Random | Block Size | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Database | 67% | 100% | 8 KB - 100% | 4 |
| File server | 80% | 100% | 512 Bytes – 10% 1 KB – 5% 2 KB – 5% 4 KB – 60% 8 KB – 2% 16 KB – 4% 32 KB – 4% 64 KB – 10% | 4 |
| Web server | 100% | 100% | 512 Bytes – 22% 1 KB – 15% 2 KB – 8% 4 KB – 23% 8 KB – 15% 16 KB – 2% 32 KB - 6% 64 KB – 7% 128 KB – 1% 512 KB – 1% | 4 |
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Summary
- Intel On Enterprise Storage: No More SLC; Meet HET MLC
- Inside The SSD 710: Something Old And Something New
- HET MLC: Supercharged MLC Or SLC Lite?
- HET MLC: What Does Endurance Really Look Like?
- Test Setup And Firmware Notes
- Benchmark Results: Storage Bench v1.0 & PCMark 7
- Benchmark Results: 4 KB Random And 128 KB Sequential Performance
- Benchmark Results: Enterprise Performance
- Sequential Performance Versus Transfer Size
- Performance Over Time
- Intel's SSD 710: Making Enterprise Storage More Affordable?
Ask a Category Expert
Expect these to be the standard when they've dropped to 1/3rd their current price.
What happens when you RAID5 or RAID1 the SSD's??
I don't think any enterprise would trust a single SSD without RAID.
My Vertex 3 has been very reliable and I'm quite satisfied with the performance. However, I've heard reports that some, just like with anything else, haven't been so lucky.
SSDs are generally accepted to be more reliable than HDDs...at least that's what I've been lead to believe.
Yes, but when they die, that's it; you're done. You can at least send a mechanical HDD to Ontrack (or a competing data recovery service) with a GOOD chance of getting most or all of your data back; when a SSD bricks, what can be done?
The assumption is that ALL servers will have raid. The point of this article is how often will you have to replace the drives in your raid? All of that down time, and manpower has a price. If the old Intel SSDs were about as reliable as a traditional HDD, then that means that these new ones will last ~30x what a traidional drive does, while providing that glorious 0ms seek time, and high IO output.
Less replacement, less down time, less $/GB, and a similar performance is a big win in my book.
SSDs (at least on the enterprise level) are roughly equivalent to their mechanical brothers in failure rate. True, when the drive is done then the data is gone, but real data centers all use RAID, and backups for redundancy. Some go so far as to have all data being mirrored at 2 locations in real time, which is an extreme measure, but worth it when your data is so important.
Besides, when a data center has to do a physical recovery of a HDD then they have already failed. The down time it takes to physically recover is unacceptable in many data centers. Though at least it is still an option.
Its funny you mention that. Ontrack purports that they are quite adept at recovering SSDs.
Intel® SSD 710 Series 300/200/100GB
Random Read (8GB Span) = no info
Random Read (100% Span) = 38500/38500/38500 IOPS
Random Write (8GB Span) = no info
Random Write (100% Span) = 2000/2700/2300 IOPS
Intel® SSD 320 Series 600/300/160/120/80GB
Random Read (8GB Span) = 39500/39500/39000/38000/38000 IOPS
Random Read (100% Span) = 39500/39500/39000/38000/38000 IOPS
Random Write (8GB Span) = 23000/23000/21000/14000/10000 IOPS
Random Write (100% Span) = 150/400/600/400/300 IOPS
Read page 8. we covered that already.
My important info has a fresh original image and 2 daily backups that automatically create 12 hours apart. It takes about 5 minutes each and costs 29.99 a year. Come on people.