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Understanding NVMe storage and hardware requirements
I'm a bit confused about the recent developments in PCIe-based storage, particularly as it relates to the NVMe specification and its hardware compatibility.
While I've worked extensively with SSDs in ...
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Automatically mount SSD instance storage on AWS EC2 in Ubuntu 16.04
I am using an Ubuntu 16.04 EC2 from AWS on c5d.2xlarge HW. It comes with a 200 GB SSD called /dev/nvme1n1.
I am able to mount this drive using:
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -E nodiscard /dev/nvme1n1
$ sudo ...
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What does iodepth in fio tests really mean? Is it the queue depth?
I understand queue depth which is the number of outstanding I/O requests that the storage controller can handle (https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-gaming-performance,2991-3.html) i.e., this is ...
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How to derive bytes written from SMART's host_write_commands?
Using either smartctl 7.0 or nvme 1.7, I get the following data from the SMART log
data_units_written : 350,371,149
host_write_commands : 2,974,115,785
Via smartctl, ...
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