Hi Keith not sure about OCZ reliability for production , but i can confirm Intel x-25 drives work great with centos ( about 11 month's now ). I use two drives as /var in md mirror , using it for SQL and logs - it's an amazing boost vs ordinary drives.
if you use the SSD for swap, don't put anything important on them, I have managed to destroy a drive which was used for heavy swap operations. (insane experiment with KVM virtual machines got to that situation ). the machines used the drive as RAM. ( that was an intel drive! ).
I did experience a bad OCZ drive in the past, that's the reason i gone for the intel disks instead for production. the OCZ one died from normal usage on a laptop as a single drive.
the intels might be slower then other SSD drives, but i find them to be very reliable in contrast for normal (sane) usage.
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2011, Eero Volotinen wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen@iki.fi Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp & /var/ partition
2011/5/20 Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net:
Has anyone actually used a SSD in a Centos setup?
Yes.
I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to use a new SSD for moving all the disk i/o to, that Linux likes to do so often. Plus putting SWAP onto a decent SSD should speed things up somewhat.
Just buy fastest ocz drive than you can find from stores.
Regards,
Keith