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Larry,
How much performance improvement between the 2 different 775 SSD?
Would this be a another valid reason to try and cost justify a P7 to P8 upgrade, in addition to the other performance and maintenance savings?
Paul
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 3:30 PM
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Subject: Re: Can the new feature ES0S 775 GB 4k SSD drives be used in a 5887 EXP24S in P7-8205-E6C?
IBM Say the ES0S drives are Power8 only.
As for the difference instead of 512(520) byte 'sectors' (we know they are really not sectors on SSD) instead the new ones use 4K Blocks. In theory this will be better for performance most of the time because there are fewer I/Os done (1 to 8). Practically it means that more disk storage can be addressed with the name number of blocks.
I seem to recall that IBM i moved from 512 to 4K (or was it 2K?) blocks back in the CISC to RISC days So logically this should be a smart move for IBM i to move to 4K block storage.
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On 1/7/2015 2:32 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:
Can the new feature ES0S 775 GB 4k SSD drives be used in a 5887 EXP24S in P7-8205-E6C?
I currently have a config for ES0H 775 GB SSD, but I rather use the newer, better drives.
Does anyone have a technical explanation for the differences in these different 775 gb SSD drives?
Thank You
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