The Intel SSD DC S3700 (200GB) Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 9, 2012 8:01 AM EST- Posted in
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Enterprise Storage Bench - Microsoft SQL UpdateDailyStats
Our next two tests are taken from our own internal infrastructure. We do a lot of statistics tracking at AnandTech - we record traffic data to all articles as well as aggregate traffic for the entire site (including forums) on a daily basis. We also keep track of a running total of traffic for the month. Our first benchmark is a trace of the MS SQL process that does all of the daily and monthly stats processing for the site. We run this process once a day as it puts a fairly high load on our DB server. Then again, we don't have a beefy SSD array in there yet :)
The UpdateDailyStats procedure is mostly reads (3:1 ratio of GB reads to writes) with 431K read operations and 179K write ops. Average queue depth is 4.2 and only 34% of all IOs are issued at a queue depth of 1. The transfer size breakdown is as follows:
| AnandTech Enterprise Storage Bench MS SQL UpdateDaily Stats IO Breakdown | ||||
| IO Size | % of Total | |||
| 8KB | 21% | |||
| 64KB | 35% | |||
| 128KB | 35% | |||
Our own AnandTech server workloads don't play to any of the S3700's weaknesses however. Instead, the S3700 ends up delivering better performance here than the SandForce based Intel SSD 520 and any other enterprise SATA SSD we've tested in fact.
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RealNinja - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - link
Looks like a nice enterprise drive. Will be interesting to see how reliable the new controller is in the "real world."For my consumer money...still gotta go with Samsung right now.
twtech - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - link
Looks like a nice workstation drive as well. With that kind of write endurance, it should be able to handle daily multi-gigabyte content syncs.futrtrubl - Saturday, November 10, 2012 - link
Umm, with that write endurance it should be able to handle daily multi-TERAbyte syncs, seeing as it is rated at 10x capacity/day for 5 years.CeriseCogburn - Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - link
I watched the interview, and saw all 3 of the braggarts spew their personal fantasies and pride talk, then came here to take a look, and I'm not impressed.I do wonder how people do that.
DanNeely - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - link
"I had to pull Micron's P400e out of this graph because it's worst case latency was too high to be used without a logarithmic scale. "Could you add the value to the text then?
crimson117 - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - link
Move away from NAND - to what?stmok - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - link
...To Phase Change Memory (PCM).DanNeely - Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - link
Everything old (CDRW) is new again!martixy - Friday, November 9, 2012 - link
Right... so we got that covered. :)Now we're eagerly awaiting the next milestone towards the tech singularity.
Memristor - Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - link
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