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All Solid State Drives Suffer Performance Drop-off

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the storage-slows-down-as-you-approach-5pm dept.

Lucas123 writes "The recent revelation that Intel's consumer X25-M solid state drive had a firmware bug that drastically affected its performance led Computerworld to question whether all SSDs can suffer performance degradation due to fragmentation issues. It seems vendors are well aware that the specifications they list on drive packaging represent burst speeds when only sequential writes are being recorded, but after use performance drops markedly over time. The drives with better controllers tend to level out, but others appear to be able to suffer performance problems. Still not fully baked are benchmarking standards that are expected out later this year from several industry organizations that will eventually compel manufacturers to list actual performance with regard to sequential and random reads and writes as well as the drive's expected lifespan under typical conditions."

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  1. All? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How can that be? They tested every drive in existence?

    1. Re:All? by gbarules2999 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Looks like it. they're all borked. Every single one of them. I said so in the title, and I only bother reading the title in Slashdot stories these days.

    2. Re:All? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Bork? Bork? Bork?

    3. Re:All? by neovoxx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Insightfail?

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    4. Re:All? by johny42 · · Score: 5, Funny

      This must be the first time a comment correcting a previous comment got modded higher than the original comment. Let's see how this comment, which comments on the fact that a comment correcting a previous comment got modded higher than the original comment, fares.

  2. Wait just a minute... by rascher · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...you mean to tell me that fragmentation *reduces* the performance of storage???

  3. Just use an intellgent defragger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    One that can relocate MFTs, most used files and swap to the chips on the outer edge of the circuit board, where the throughput is faster.

    1. Re:Just use an intellgent defragger by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Funny

      This technique requires you to spin your flash chips very fast, which is a feature only supported on enterprise-grade SSDs.

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  4. Re:Just a small dip in performance by postbigbang · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, that's a great solution. Wipe a nice fat drive array, then start over. Right. Wipe it. Got it.

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  5. Re:Just a small dip in performance by NotBorg · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least like you should be able to reverse the problem by wiping the SSD and starting over.

    So this is a non issue for Windows users?

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  6. Re:Just a small dip in performance by myxiplx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Authoritative comments, on Slashdot? Are you sure you're on the right site?