Implementation of Solid State Drives to Enterprise Systems













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Implementation of Solid State Drives to Enterprise Systems Bc. Matej Fuček
Objective of the work Is the SSD technology sufficient replacement for HDD in Enterprise Systems? Are SSDs fast enough? Can SSD unconditionally replace HDDs?
Experimental Performance Evaluation Performance of Single SSDs vs. single HDDs Performance of RAID 0 using only SSDs Performance of mixed RAID 0 (HDD + SSD) Performance of RAID 1 using only HDDs Performance of RAID 1 using only SSDs Performance of mixed RAID 1 (HDD + SSD) NTFS, FAT 32 and ex. FAT performance
Environment Drives: 2 x ADATA SX 900 128 GB 2 x Kingston V 300 120 GB Lite-ON IT LMT-128 m 6 m 128 GB Western Digital 10 EZEX-00 RKKA 0 1 TB Western Digital 20 EFRX-68 AX 9 N 0 2 TB CPU AMD A 10 -5700 Quad-core @3. 7 GHz with Silver. Stone Heligon HE 02 cooler RAM 16 GB Corsair Vengeance Low Profile Black 16 GB (4 x 4 GB) DDR 3 1600 Mother. Board Giga. Byte GA-F 2 A 85 X-D 3 H rev 1. 0 AMDK 15 IMC, AMD A 85 X FCH Bios AM –F 1 System drive Kingston V 300 120 GB GPU AMD Radeon HD 7600 D PSU Seasonic X-750, 750 W Operating Windows 7 Ultimate x 64 + updates till 24 th System August 2014 Drivers AMD Chipset Driver (include chipset sata raid VGA USB driver) v. 13. 25 AMD RAID Driver v 3. 3. 1540. 40 PC case 4 x Patriot WARP 32 GB (disqualified) Benchmark software LIAN-LI PC-V 2120 B, with 3 x 40 mm and 5 x 120 mm fan HD-Tune v 5. 50 Crystal. Disk. Mark 3. 0. 3 x 64 ATTO Disk Benchmark v 2. 46
Performance SSD vs. HDD Sequential Read and Write in MB/s, Crystal. Disk. Mark 3. 0. 3 x 64 154. 2 Western Digital 20 EFRX-68 AX 9 N 0 2 TB 155. 1 182 Western Digital 10 EZEX-00 RKKA 0 1 TB 186 322. 1 Lite-ON IT LMT-128 m 6 m 128 GB 482. 444. 4 Kingston V 300 120 GB 466. 7 444. 2 2 nd ADATA SX 900 128 GB 472. 6 445. 3 1 st ADATA SX 900 128 GB 470. 5 0 50 100 Write <1 Fill> 150 Write <0 Fill> 200 Read <1 Fill> 250 300 Read <0 Fill> 350 400 450 500
Random 4 K QD 32 Read and Write in MB/s, Crystal. Disk. Mark 3. 0. 3 x 64 1. 891 Western Digital 20 EFRX-68 AX 9 N 0 2 TB 1. 665 1. 75 Western Digital 10 EZEX-00 RKKA 0 1 TB 2. 052 207. 8 Lite-ON IT LMT-128 m 6 m 128 GB 273. 3 263 Kingston V 300 120 GB 126. 3 266. 2 2 nd ADATA SX 900 128 GB 109. 2 266. 2 1 st ADATA SX 900 128 GB 113. 7 0 50 Write <1 Fill> 100 Write <0 Fill> Read <1 Fill> 150 Read <0 Fill> 200 250 300
RAID 0 performance Sequential Read and Write in MB/s, Crystal. Disk. Mark 3. 0. 3 x 64 313. 5 296. 8 321 302 HDD RAID 0 957. 5 962. 7 938. 5 914. 9 SSD RAID 0 0 100 200 300 Write <1 Fill> 400 500 Write <0 Fill> 600 Read <1 Fill> 700 800 900 1000 1100 Read <0 Fill> 4 KQD 32 Read and Write in MB/s, Crystal. Disk. Mark 3. 0. 3 x 64 4. 19 4. 26 2. 85 3. 59 HDD RAID 0 195. 3 195. 9 SSD RAID 0 228. 8 229. 4 0 50 100 Write <1 Fill> Write <0 Fill> 150 Read <1 Fill> Read <0 Fill> 200 250
RAID 1 Performance Sequential Read and Write in MB/s, Crystal. Disk. Mark 3. 0. 3 x 64 153 151. 9 161. 9 158. 7 HDD RAID 1 480. 8 481. 6 SSD RAID 1 504. 3 503. 2 0 100 200 Write <1 Fill> 300 Write <0 Fill> 400 Read <1 Fill> 500 600 Read <0 Fill> Random 4 K QD 32 Read and Write in MB/s, Crystal. Disk. Mark 3. 0. 3 x 64 2. 02 2 1. 83 3. 41 HDD RAID 1 168 171 SSD RAID 1 115. 1 116. 3 0 20 40 60 Write <1 Fill> 80 Write <0 Fill> 100 Read <1 Fill> 120 Read <0 Fill> 140 160 180
Enterprise Systems Transactional Processing Server Video Server High Performance Computing Server Virtualization Server Internet/Network Server
Additional findings Old SSDs unsupported by systems Hardware RAID not optimized for SSDs Mixed SSD and HDD RAID are not as effective as expected Special hardware RAID needed for optimized performance of mixed HDD, SSD solutions RAID 4, 5, 6 wear-leveling issue NTFS/FAT 32 and ex. FAT performance
NTFS/FAT 32 and ex. FAT performance PCMark 7 Storage tests in MB/s 23. 09 22. 95 23. 05 Video editing Importing pictures 8. 24 Windows Media Centre 1. 39 Importing Music 29. 55 29. 49 29. 51 16. 75 16. 73 16. 75 Gaming 56. 53 55. 7 56. 5 Application Loading 5. 39 5. 36 5. 35 Windows Defender 0 10 20 ex. FAT 30 FAT 32 NTFS 40 50 60
Conclusions & Future Work SSDs are much faster More reliable but wear faster SSD RAIDs still lack desired performance File systems have minimal impact on performance SSD deployment is still limited Improve life expectancy of MTL and TLC by downgrading to SLC Performance measurements of database systems –Postgre. SQL SSD RAID optimization
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