Re: Testing Sandforce SSD

Yeb Havinga wrote:
> Please remember that particular graphs are from a read/write pgbench
> run on a bigger than RAM database that ran for some time (so with
> checkpoints), on a *single* $435 50GB drive without BBU raid controller.

To get similar *average* performance results you'd need to put about 4
drives and a BBU into a server.  The worst-case latency on that solution
is pretty bad though, when a lot of random writes are queued up; I
suspect that's where the SSD will look much better.

By the way:  if you want to run a lot more tests in an organized
fashion, that's what http://github.com/gregs1104/pgbench-tools was
written to do.  That will spit out graphs by client and by scale showing
how sensitive the test results are to each.

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