[OL] Re: Wanted - SATA/PATA/USB2 SSD with bad sectors for bcache testing (and offer of bcache presentation)

2010-05-10 Thread Alan Johnson
I don't think any of ours are bad, but I've got piles of 512GB SSDs at the moment, and I'm about to order more, so if you would like to do some benchmarking with lots of parallel SSDs, we might be able to help. I don't know if I can let them out of the building since they are supposed to go into p

Wanted - SATA/PATA/USB2 SSD with bad sectors for bcache testing (and offer of bcache presentation)

2010-05-10 Thread William Stearns
Good afternoon, all, "Seriously? He wants _bad_ sectors?" I hear them say. :-) I'm working on a linux kernel project that uses SSD's to cache normal rotating media hard drives. bcache is in early development and not stable for general use, but the performance numbers are entic