[ale] XFS on Linux - Is it ready for prime time?

[Brian Pitts]

On 04/22/2010 03:27 PM, Pat Regan wrote:
> Theoretically an SSD should be very reliable.  In practice I am having 
> poor luck with my Intel X25-M.
> 
> I bought it sometime around November.  It stopped being detected by the 
> BIOS in my Dell laptop some time in early February.  The replacement 
> drive just did the same thing, this time in my (way too) shiny new HP 
> dv8t laptop.  We'll see how long the next one lasts when it gets here...
> 
> I'm especially disappointed because I was thinking about adding a second 
> X25 to the second drive bay in this gigantor laptop and running a RAID 0.
> 
> Two failures in six months have me thinking I'd be restoring from backup 
> would be occurring WAY too often.  The RMA process also has me 
> questioning whether I even want to own another drive from Intel.  I had 
> to call them back a second time on each failure to actually get them to 
> successfully email me an RMA number.  I figured confirming my email 
> address three separate times on this RMA attempt would be enough...

You're making me nervous! I got a second-generation X-25M a couple
months ago. So far, it's been great. I haven't done any real disk
benchmarking, but bootchart shows throughput over 270MB/second, and
booting takes less than 15 seconds. I can do tons of seek-intensive
operations and the system never lags.

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All the best,
Brian Pitts