Re: Discard benchmarking tool for SSD's and thinly provisioned devices

From: Ric Wheeler
Date: Mon Oct 18 2010 - 08:28:22 EST


On 10/18/2010 07:47 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 13:40 +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
Also note that there might be some devices with buggy firmware which may
be damaged beyond repair by the TRIM command, especially with TRIM
performed in random IO pattern (from first-hand experience).
A list of known bad devices might be appreciated..

The challenge with naming devices that had issues is that some of them were early versions (not stable firmware) and some we got under NDA so we cannot name them...

ric

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