Recent content by keekles

Lovely. At least I can confirm the disks I have have the newest firmware on them. (EQPC) I'm at a loss as to why they would give firmware out encrypted. To decrypt it, their updater software must have the private key in it. It makes no sense. Are you able to find the updater application...

It looks like the Samsung have the write cache enabled. This would explain the speed I see at first (1000 mbyte/s+) and then drops off over the 50g file. None of the other disks have it enabled, assuming 1 here is enabled. # sdparm --get=WCE /dev/sdl /dev/sdl: SAMSUNG P1633N38 EMC3840...

I didn't even think of checking that. How do I check that?

Yes, that's a slightly different part number/firmware so didn't think it was applicable. I did some testing with mine, a bit of a let down as the direct write performance was only about 40% better than the spinning disks and 40% less than the older 1.6 TB SSD's I had as spares. I'm wondering...

Two questions to this: 1. What did you use to convert it to 4096? 2. What do you mean by all hell broke loose? My plan is to use these as ZFS special devices in a 3x mirror for my 261tb spinning rust pool. In testing on my staging computer, I'm seeing some poor throughput on the SSD, like...

I have 4 of these EMC branded disks. I'm looking at how to confirm the firmware is up to date and set the sector size to 4096. I've tried the sg n format command under linux with failure. I have the setblocksize program running on it now and will let it format until tomorrow and see if that...