NVMe SSD's

Nathan England plug-discuss at nmecs.com
Thu Oct 27 14:17:49 MST 2016


I have so far stuck with Samsung SSDs for the fde, as I was afraid 
running luks would shorten the life span. How long have you been running 
an SSD with luks? Have you noticed any degredation?

Or seen any good articles about it?


-- 
Regards,

  -- Nathan


On 2016-10-27 09:31, Michael Butash wrote:
> Curious if anyone has taken the plunge to play with nvme-based ssd's
> under linux here?  Particularly around raid.
> 
> Not finding a lot pertaining to them that is positive toward linux on
> the tubes, and I'm looking to reproduce my usual raid1+luks+lvm atop
> them, so feedback on doing so would be appreciated if anyone has
> comment.
> 
> I'm building a new desktop, and considering using them in place if
> they can boot, as the system is built more as a server as a vm farm
> for my lab so the iops would be appreciated when it's also my desktop.
>  I see reference to EFI-based raid, which makes me cringe, but seem
> mdraid fakeraid can handle them to some extents.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -mb
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