On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Dan van der Ster <d...@vanderster.com> wrote:
> I am currently pricing out some DCS3520's, for OSDs. Word is that the
> price is going up, but I don't have specifics, yet.
>
> I'm curious, does your real usage show that the 3500 series don't
> offer enough endurance?
>
> Here's one of our DCS3700's after 2.5 years of RBD + a bit of S3:
>
> Model Family:     Intel 730 and DC S35x0/3610/3700 Series SSDs
> Device Model:     INTEL SSDSC2BA200G3
> Firmware Version: 5DV10270
> User Capacity:    200,049,647,616 bytes [200 GB]
>
>   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       22580
> 226 Workld_Media_Wear_Indic 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       3471
> 228 Workload_Minutes        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       1354810
> 232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033   099   099   010    Pre-fail
> Always       -       0
> 233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age
> Always       -       0
> 241 Host_Writes_32MiB       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       8236969
> 242 Host_Reads_32MiB        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age
> Always       -       7400
>
> Still loads of endurance left.

Err... scratch that .... math fail. Yes, there is enough endurance left on this
S3700. But 8236969*32MiB = 276TB which is already getting too much for
a S35x0 series.

Cheers, Dan


>
> Anyway, in a couple months we'll start testing the Optane drives. They
> are small and perhaps ideal journals, or?
>
> -- Dan
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Nick Fisk <n...@fisk.me.uk> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> There seems to be a shift in enterprise SSD products to larger less write 
>> intensive products and generally costing more than what
>> the existing P/S 3600/3700 ranges were. For example the new Intel NVME P4600 
>> range seems to start at 2TB. Although I mention Intel
>> products, this seems to be the general outlook across all manufacturers. 
>> This presents some problems for acquiring SSD's for Ceph
>> journal/WAL use if your cluster is largely write only and wouldn't benefit 
>> from using the extra capacity brought by these SSD's to
>> use as cache.
>>
>> Is anybody in the same situation and is struggling to find good P3700 400G 
>> replacements?
>>
>> Nick
>>
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