Includes support for: Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter X540-T2 Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter X520-T2 Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter Intel NIC Linux DKMS and KMP RPMs for RedHat and Novell SLES.
Intel Intel PCI-E 10Gig and 1Gig Family of Server Adapters, v.12.5.5, A04 Intel NIC drivers for W2K3圆4, W2K8圆4, and W2K8R2.
Intel PRO PCI-E Gigabit Single and Dual Port Base Driver Dell Update Package, PRO PCI-E 4 Port Gigabit Base Driver, PCI-E 10Gigabit Base Driver Dell Update Package, PCI-E Base Driver Dell Update Package, v.11.6, A00 Dell Update Package for Intel Server PCI-e NICs base drivers (W2K8R2 Server)ĭELL,SRV,SW,NTWK,BCOM,V17.0.1,TM,17.0.1,A00 Windows 2008 圆4 driver update for NetXtreme I/II Broadcom Ethernet adapters. Intel NIC drivers for Windows Server 2008 Intel NIC drivers for W2K8x86 Includes support for: Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2 Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter X540-T2 Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter X520-T2 Intel(R) Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 Intel(R) GbE 4P I350c rNDC Intel(R) 10GbE Intel Intel PCI-E 10Gig and 1Gig Family of Server Adapters, v.12.5.5, A04 Intel NIC drivers for W2K3 and W2K8 Server.
, A01 Intel 3420 Chipset Software Installation Utility Intel 3420 Chipset Software Installation Utility, v.9. The SSD's garbage collection algorithms simply can't take advantage of the Trim data if the workload is constant.Intel 3420 chipset SATA AHCI Controller, v.8., A00 Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 x86 AHCI driver for Intel IbexPeak (PCH) SATA AHCI controller for eSATA support If your workload is such that you don't have some occasional idle time between data transfers, TRIM won't have time to operate anyway. A controller which supports TRIM is definitely recommended, but depending on your workload, may be moot.A larger stripe will result in larger transfer sizes, which can optimize performance and minimize wear. I'll leave the choice of RAID configuration to you, but I'd suggest that you try a fairly large RAID stripe.These drives may require a little more TLC (pun intended) from the system designer. You may be able to use these lower-cost SSDs, but go in with eyes-wide-open. Consumer-grade (or "Client") SSDs will typically have lower endurance ratings, and will exhibit lower throughput under data center workloads. Your notation of the "consumer-grade SSDs" is apt.
Yes, this is one of our SSDs specifically designed for data center, server-type workloads, and sounds like a good fit for your application. Have you seen this link, pretty handy comparison of all the somewhat current controllers. The H700 has been solid and available with 1Gb cache, I know the newer Dell servers are up to the H730, H730p, and H830 controllers, so I'm guessing you can pickup an H700 a little cheaper. Nothing positive written about them on this site. As far as the OP, I think I would avoid those H200 controllers. I'd like to see the tests with up to date hardware, they seemed vague on what they used. I found the numbers on the overprovisioning very interesting, as from my understanding, that's what separates an enterprise class drive from a consumer grade. Some of the concerns brought up are things that we don't worry about as much as we used to.
That's a pretty interesting read, but it is almost four years old, which is a lifetime as far as SSD technology.
So, just keep it in mind when designing a SSD based RAID system. ]The Pitfalls of Deploying Solid-State Drive RAIDs - IBM Take a look at this research piece from IBM for more information on it. There's also the fact that a lot of RAID controllers will experience I/O bottlenecks with SSD's. RAID 5 is acceptable for SSD's but not recommended due to the increased writes it generates, especially on SLC SSD's. RAID 0 doesn't make sense, and neither does RAID 01. Thanks for pointing out the issue with TRIM support.