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From: Juergen Salk <juergen.salk@gmx.de>
To: "Brian L." <brianclam@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: precondition ssd drives w/ fio
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 22:42:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131003204206.GA28048@highx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAAK+WW66DdYt2JEG+2K42vWzczn38xtnh5WK-1x97zFbdkyqg@mail.gmail.com>

* Brian L. <brianclam@gmail.com> [131003 12:31]:

> For benchmarking SSD drives, I was told that we should precondition
> our drives to get more accurate real world reading.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone is using fio itself to precondition ssd
> drives or use a different script to populate random data on the
> drives?

Yes I did. The fio source tarball comes with a number of sample
job files including `ssd-steadystate.fio�, which might be
useful for preconditioning of ssd devices. 

Regards,

Juergen

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-03 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-03 19:31 precondition ssd drives w/ fio Brian L.
2013-10-03 19:52 ` Roger Sibert
2013-10-03 20:06 ` David Nellans
2013-10-03 20:42 ` Juergen Salk [this message]
2013-10-03 21:09   ` Brian L.
2013-10-03 21:39     ` Jeffrey Mcvay (jmcvay)
2013-10-04  5:44       ` Georg Schönberger
2013-10-04 17:35         ` Brian L.
2013-10-04 18:22       ` Brian L.
2013-10-04 20:16         ` Jeffrey Mcvay (jmcvay)

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