[Beowulf] SSDs for HPC?

[Christopher Samuel]

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On 08/04/14 05:38, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:

> Was it wear out, or some other failure mode?

My uneducated guess would be bugs in the FTL, I've seen a various
horror stories on the btrfs list about that.

I recently had to update the firmware on a Crucial SSD to fix a bug
that can make it hang after a certain number of hours powered on (not
clear if consecutive or total) - fortunately reported by smartctl when
querying the drive for information.

cheers,
Chris
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