Comments | greenreaper: HP SSD Smart Path not always a smart choice

greenreaper

HP SSD Smart Path not always a smart choice

Jan 23, 2015 11:35

Inkbunny uses one of HP's RAID controllers. I've gotten intimately familiar with it over the past week while transforming Inkbunny's submissions array to RAID 5. It's pretty sweet.

I recently found out about a new feature it supports called SSD Smart Path. Unfortunately, for our purposes, it's not all that smart to use it ( Read more... )

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ext_4450624 December 30 2017, 06:05:35 UTC

You save my life.
Thanks!!!

anonymous September 25 2018, 12:09:22 UTC

Very good explanations.
Thank you

anonymous July 2 2020, 15:44:14 UTC

I am still flabbergasted this is the default. The numbers I'm getting (at least in CrystalDiskMark) on a brand new HPE server with branded HPE SSDs are significantly better when using the regular caching module (25% read / 75% write) versus SmartPath. And that's on every benchmark except random reads (and it's not much different there). WHY WHY WHY?! Glad someone blogged about it though!