I just got a new project at work and need some help with convincing management on how bad of an idea this is. Basically someone gave me about 100 Samsung 840 drives and wants some older servers upgraded. The servers are running Supermicro SMC AOC-USAS-S8iR controllers on a passthru backplane, alternative is an Intel ICH9r onboard SATA connection. The drives would be in RAID1, 2 per server.
The issue I foresee is these are manufacturing servers running windows XP performing extremely time critical tasks. There are lots of small writes but only around 10TB/yr. My concern is lack of trim will lead to a stall during a write and cause a server to miss it's target time during an operation.
If anyone has some good hard data I can use to show this being an issue, I would appreciate it.
The issue I foresee is these are manufacturing servers running windows XP performing extremely time critical tasks. There are lots of small writes but only around 10TB/yr. My concern is lack of trim will lead to a stall during a write and cause a server to miss it's target time during an operation.
If anyone has some good hard data I can use to show this being an issue, I would appreciate it.