[OmniOS-discuss] Status of TRIM support?

[Doug Hughes]

On 5/29/2014 11:19 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>> On 5/28/2014 10:34 AM, Saso Kiselkov wrote:
>>> On 5/28/14, 4:08 PM, Schweiss, Chip wrote:
>>>> Intel has several SATA SSDs with proper super-cap protected caches that
>>>> make good log devices.
>>>
>>> I'd recommend looking at a Intel DC S3700. The 200 GB or 400 GB
>>> varieties promise ~30000 4k random write IOPS and actually seem to
>>> deliver:
>>> http://www.anandtech.com/show/7065/intel-ssd-dc-s3500-review-480gb-part-1/3
>>> They're also not so expensive that it'll break your bank:
>>> http://www.amazon.com/S3700-Internal-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B00A8NWD68
>>>
>>
>> Second this. The DC S3700 are very good.
>
> Hmmm, looking on amazon, I see the 100GB s3700 is $235 or so.  I has lower
> random perf than the 200/400GB units, but still claiming 19K IOPS.  Given
> this is for an SLOG, 200/400GB is a waste of space - the only reason I can
> see to do that would be the higher random IOPS.  Is that likely to matter
> here?
>

The higher price is the reason I tend to prefer the 320 series that come 
in around $1/GB and have smaller sizes available. I use them for OS + slog.