PFS mirroring insted of RAID Improved set up - need comments.

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:

:Matt, any specific SSD's that you recommend or have found to
:work well with *BSD ?
:
:For good measure, please feel free to throw in any caveats as
:well.
:
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:thanks
:Saifi.

    I've only messed around with Intel and OCZ.  Of the two the Intel
    matches swapcache's mostly-read load characteristics better.
    The X25-V (40G MLC drive) has limited write bandwidth but
    is perfectly adequate.I know the message was specifically addressed to Matt, but sent to the list ??? I have an X25-M on FreeBSD which is a ZFS cache device.  That setup has brought a phenomenal performance increase to my piddly 7200 1TB drives. 
I also have a Transcend TS64GSSD25-M 64GB PATA MLC which breathed new life into an old 600m 1.4 ghz laptop.  It runs kde4 quite well.The intel's support TRIM which is pretty useful, except that *BSD doesn't yet to my knowledge.  Both my drives were ebay snipes and I haven't had an issue with either although the intel preforms quite a bit better for several reasons.
-- Adam Vande More