Hardware & Technical Hard drives V flash drives discuss

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
While I cant discuss specifics - I recently brought online a rather tasty SAN line in the Pb range.

Mostly HDD based.

Flash is all well and good and lovely, but remember - if your batches are perfectly timed on known latencies and runtimes, recoding those timings can be more expensive than any benefits from faster storage.
 

Porina

Porina
wrmiller said:
Do you even know how much storage is dedicated to over-provisioning in your drive?
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Kingston state they use 7% on their consumer drives, at least the low end ones I've bought. This also roughly ties up with marketed space vs. nearest power of two capacity. I haven't looked it up for other brands. I don't really care, as long as they do their job.
 

wrmiller

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Porina said:
Kingston state they use 7% on their consumer drives, at least the low end ones I've bought. This also roughly ties up with marketed space vs. nearest power of two capacity. I haven't looked it up for other brands. I don't really care, as long as they do their job.
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Yup, as long as it works, most folks don't need to know how this stuff works. Sometimes I'm surprised this stuff works as well as it does. ;)
 
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