On 11/23/2011 07:02 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Now, what about comprehensive suites? Should I just run some IO > suites on it like bonnie++ or something like that, and see what SMART > says in the process? test for what you care about really, most people use SSD's for the performance angle. I tend to prefer iozone over bonnie++ these days - there are a host of other perf test tools that might be worth running through, eg the mysql-bench or the pgsql perf test. Depends on what your production workload is and what you care about - KB