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   Kris Nóva (nova@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 14:55:26 JST Kris Nóva

   Picking up a group of the Samsung EVO drives in the rack is one of the best ideas I’ve had in a while. This was the right decision.

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     Dave Disser (disser@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:00:47 JST Dave Disser

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     @nova are they durable enough for a write heavy workload?

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     Kris Nóva (nova@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:03:02 JST Kris Nóva

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     • Dave Disser

     @disser I mean they are shitty consumer drives — what does “write heavy” mean to you ?

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     Dave Disser (disser@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:06:18 JST Dave Disser

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     @nova I guess I don’t know what you’re using them for, I assumed it had something to do with the instance. But they’d be rated for some total write load. For my home instance I have some evos which have been great for lvm cache but I’m not running mastodon on them ?

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     Kris Nóva (nova@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:10:38 JST Kris Nóva

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     • Dave Disser

     @disser I’m not sure what I’m going to use them for yet — we have a lot of extra bays in the rack — I was considering using them as cold replica of our media data here in the basement but I’m trying to stay away from making any more big production decisions this year — I’m just happy to have them is all

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     Dave Disser (disser@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:17:30 JST Dave Disser

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     @nova yeah they’re really nice drives in my experience. I used to work as a performance engineer in a database company so the durability ends up being one of the first thoughts in my head when ssds come up

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     Kris Nóva (nova@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:22:38 JST Kris Nóva

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     • Dave Disser

     @disser I hear you. I spend my days working on NVMe and kernel caching for GitHub’s databases. Unfortunately I don’t have that kind of scratch for my little side hustles… so SATA connections and consumer hardware is what we get to play with.

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     deltatux (deltatux@tuxz.one)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:23:55 JST deltatux

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     • Dave Disser
     @disser @nova
     
     Originally thought I had the Samsung 870 EVO, turns out my server has the Samsung 860 EVO instead ... ooops lol. Still quite performant.
     
     Not sure what you consider to be "write heavy", have had this drive in my home server for almost 2 years now. Attached is a copy of the smartctl output from my server. According to the LBA to TBW calculator, it's the equivalent of almost 63 TB written. Mind you this server doesn't do a ton, most of the writes are log files when it used to run OPNSense.
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     Dave Disser (disser@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:26:21 JST Dave Disser

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     @nova for sure, the performance of even consumer kit now is pretty awesome

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     Bracken :verified: (bracken@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:29:30 JST Bracken :verified:

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     @nova You mean the write decision.

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     Kris Nóva (nova@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:34:36 JST Kris Nóva

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     • Dave Disser

     @disser

     Yeah -- when I was working at SolidFire the specs we see today are the things we were charging thousands for.