Re: Recommendations for SSDs in production?

From: Benjamin Smith <lists(at)benjamindsmith(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Recommendations for SSDs in production?
Date: 2011-11-03 03:06:06
Message-ID: 201111022006.06899.lists@benjamindsmith.com
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On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 01:01:47 PM Yeb Havinga wrote:
> Could you tell a bit more about the sudden death? Does the drive still
> respond to queries for smart attributes?

Just that. It's almost like somebody physically yanked them out of the
machine, after months of 24x7 perfect performance. A cold reboot seems to
restore order for a while, but the drives die again similarly fairly soon
after a failure like this.

From what I can tell, SMART is not worth much with SSDs.

-Ben

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