Mike, I'm talking about a 1TB SSD option for some hardware we are buying.  If 
you are really curious, I can ask the people who are doing the project for the 
model and specs.

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: ext Michael McCandless [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 12:47 PM
To: Lucene/Solr dev
Subject: Re: Lucene tests killed one other SSD - Policeman Jenkins

Er, which drives have write endurance only 70x?  That's exceptionally low?  I 
thought this was more like ~1000x for modern consumer SSDs?

Mike McCandless

http://blog.mikemccandless.com


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:35 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> " Only 70 full writes seems a little bit low for an SSD."
>
> That's what I thought.  I was astounded to learn that that is in fact correct 
> (at least for some of the drives we are using here).  Automatic recovery is 
> how the SSD copes with this failure rate.
>
> But it is entirely possible that the cause of your problems are something 
> else.
>
> Karl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Uwe Schindler [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 12:31 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Lucene tests killed one other SSD - Policeman Jenkins
>
> Hi Karl,
>
> Only 70 full writes seems a little bit low for an SSD. This SSD has a 
> capacity of 64 Gigabytes so 53 Terabytes written is not bad for it. It 
> already had the first few errors, so you might be right, as you see from this 
> Smart data:
>
> 231 SSD_Life_Left           0x0013   096   096   010    Pre-fail  Always      
>  -       0
>
> So this "arbitrary" counter just went down from 100 to 096. I have the 
> feeling that the current issues with this SSD are not really write problems, 
> more hardware interface or firmware problems (as seen quite often for OCZ 
> Vertex 2). Otherwise it would fail very early. According this data it should 
> survive more 10th of years?
>
> Uwe
>
> -----
> Uwe Schindler
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>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 5:07 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Lucene tests killed one other SSD - Policeman Jenkins
>>
>> I am told that SSD's are spec'd for only 70 full writes before they 
>> get an error.  The error block is set aside but eventually something 
>> critical gets hit.  So you should probably should expect this to happen 
>> again.
>>
>> Karl
>
>
>
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