Hi Quenten,
There is no real answer to your question. It really depends on how busy your storage will be and particularly if it is mainly reads or writes. I wouldn't pay too much attention to that SSD endurance test, whilst it's great to know that they have a lot more headroom than their official spec's, you run the risk of having a spectacular multiple disk failure if you intend to run them all that high. You can probably guarantee that as 1 SSD starts to fail the increase in workload to re-balance the cluster will cause failures on the rest. I guess it really comes down to how important is the availability of your data. Whilst an average pc user might balk at the price of paying 4 times per GB more for a S3700 SSD, in the enterprise world they are still comparatively cheap. The other thing you need to be aware of is that most consumer SSD's don't have power loss protection, again if you are mainly doing reads and cost is more important than availability, there may be an argument to use them. Nick From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Quenten Grasso Sent: 24 January 2015 09:13 To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: [ceph-users] Consumer Grade SSD Clusters Hi Everyone, Just wondering if anyone has had any experience in using consumer grade SSD's for a Ceph cluster? I came across this article <http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties- on-the-way-to-a-petabyte/3> http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties-o n-the-way-to-a-petabyte/3 They have been testing different SSD's write endurance and they have been able to write up to 1PB+ to a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB which is only "rated" at 150TBW and of course other SSD's have failed well before 1PBW, So defiantly worth a read. So I've been thinking about using consumer grade SSD's for OSD's and Enterprise SSD's for journals. Reasoning is enterprise SSD's are a lot faster at journaling then consumer grade drives plus this would effectively half the overall write requirements on the consumer grade disks. This also could be a cost effective alternative to using enterprise SSD's as OSD's however it seems if your happy to use 2 x replication it's a pretty good cost saving however 3x replication not so much. Cheers, Quenten Grasso
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