[OmniOS-discuss] OWC Mercury Accelsior

[Nate Smith]

Really enjoying the Intel S3700 series.  It seems to be the best mix of enterprise stability (built in capacitors), write endurance, speed, and price.  Working well as a zil.

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From: omnios-discuss-bounces at lists.omniti.com [mailto:omnios-discuss-bounces at lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Saso Kiselkov
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 4:52 PM
To: Fábio Rabelo
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Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OWC Mercury Accelsior

For to CC the list:

On 06/06/2013 21:19, Fábio Rabelo wrote:
> Some one tested one of this babys with OminOS :
> 
> http://www.storagereview.com/owc_mercury_accelsior_pcie_ssd_review
> 
> Specs are Little sketchy, but mention LSI chipset ...
> 
> Thinking about ZIL and/or cache

PCI-e SSDs are difficult for slog because in case the storage head dies, you can't fail-over to a backup node. PCIe doesn't support multiple hosts on the same bus.

Cheers,
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Saso

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