On 2013-05-03, at 1:59 PM, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > I tried putting our index on a single OCZ SSD and it died during buildindex. > The SSD was completely unresponsive thereafter, which is pretty > appalling behaviour for a storage device. Having since sworn off > OCZ, I would try again with a pair of Intel 330s in a RAID.
A couple of months ago I tried cloning my existing fossil+venti to an OCZ Vertex 3. I did the partitioning and setup by hand and everything seemed to go just fine: the arenas copied and verified, fossil initialized, and I could run and mount the fossil from the SSD, but whenever I tried to boot from it it failed very early on with "I/O error" and that was that. I didn't have any spare time to mess around with it so I just stuck with the existing disk. I was running a really bastardized mix of old and new boot software, so it's quite possible I screwed up installing the correct MBR and boot loader. But it might also have been a problem with the BIOS or SATA controller on the motherboard -- it's a slightly ancient Supermicro Atom 1U, and it doesn't like SATA hard disks, either (it's currently talking to an IDE disk). I didn't have time to try 9atom. That said, the limited testing I did with the secondary fossil+venti showed it to be quite zippy, within the limitations of the surrounding motherboard hardware. Certainly it was noticeably faster than the hard disk for, e.g., mk all. --lyndon
