High end consumer SSD benchmarks

Running consumer ssd in a server has been deemed hazardous and silly… but that’s only the case when your utilizing a hardware raid solution.

Provided you have UPS systems and software storage that can talk to the disk directly its perfectly safe.  We use Ceph!

These are tested with FIO on a Dell M620 with H310 JBOD mode controller.

Micron/Crucial M500

running IO "sequential read" test... 
	result is 491.86MB per second

 running IO "sequential write" test... 
	result is 421.42MB per second

 running IO "seq read/seq write" test... 
	result is 228.74MB/184.88MB per second

 running IO "random read" test... 
	result is 240.35MB per second
	equals 61530.2 IOs per second

 running IO "random write" test... 
	result is 230.34MB per second
	equals 58968.2 IOs per second

 running IO "rand read/rand write" test... 
	result is 93.90MB/94.01MB per second
	equals 24038.8/24067.5 IOs per second

Micron/Crucial M550

running IO "sequential read" test... 
	result is 523.79MB per second

 running IO "sequential write" test... 
	result is 476.59MB per second

 running IO "seq read/seq write" test... 
	result is 211.70MB/173.50MB per second

 running IO "random read" test... 
	result is 253.36MB per second
	equals 64861.0 IOs per second

 running IO "random write" test... 
	result is 233.42MB per second
	equals 59754.2 IOs per second

 running IO "rand read/rand write" test... 
	result is 102.42MB/102.28MB per second
	equals 26219.5/26184.0 IOs per second

Micron M600

running IO "sequential read" test... 
 result is 507.47MB per second

running IO "sequential write" test... 
 result is 477.18MB per second

running IO "seq read/seq write" test... 
 result is 198.38MB/166.73MB per second

running IO "random read" test... 
 result is 244.66MB per second
 equals 62633.2 IOs per second

running IO "random write" test... 
 result is 238.35MB per second
 equals 61017.5 IOs per second

running IO "rand read/rand write" test... 
 result is 103.10MB/102.95MB per second
 equals 26393.8/26354.0 IOs per second

Sandisk 960GB SSD Extreme Pro

running IO "sequential read" test... 
 result is 394.66MB per second

running IO "sequential write" test... 
 result is 451.28MB per second

running IO "seq read/seq write" test... 
 result is 181.48MB/158.89MB per second

running IO "random read" test... 
 result is 255.99MB per second
 equals 65533.5 IOs per second

running IO "random write" test... 
 result is 223.86MB per second
 equals 57309.2 IOs per second

running IO "rand read/rand write" test... 
 result is 71.47MB/71.46MB per second
 equals 18296.0/18294.2 IOs per second

Crucial MX300 1TB

running IO "sequential read" test... 
	result is 504.80MB per second

 running IO "sequential write" test... 
	result is 501.97MB per second

 running IO "seq read/seq write" test... 
	result is 239.47MB/210.71MB per second

 running IO "random read" test... 
	result is 175.78MB per second
	equals 45000.0 IOs per second

 running IO "random write" test... 
	result is 291.85MB per second
	equals 74713.5 IOs per second

 running IO "rand read/rand write" test... 
	result is 137.10MB/137.09MB per second
	equals 35096.8/35095.0 IOs per second

Dell MD 36X MD 32XX passwords + lockdown clearing. MD3600 MD3200 MD3620 MD3620F MD3620 MD3850 MD3800f

Use screen, baud is 115200 8N1

Do Ctrl +A, Ctrl + B, hit escape

VXlogin: shellUsr

password: DF4m/2>

Run: lemClearLockdown

Enjoy your now working md3600 which i guess is a netapp product?

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Title:     Disk Array Controller
Copyright 2008-2012 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Name:      RC
Version:   07.84.44.60
Date:      10/25/2012
Time:      14:41:57 CDT
Models:    2660
Manager:   devmgr.v1084api04.Manager
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