[Info-vax] Hobbyist DS10/DS15 fastest storage option

[Rich Jordan]

On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 12:27:14 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-08-29 16:20:58 +0000, Rich Jordan said:
> 
> > Has anyone successfully run an SSD using a SATA/IDE converter on a DS10 
> > with VMS?
> 
> Yes, there are folks that have used SSD storage with OpenVMS Alpha.  
> You'll find some previous discussions here.  Downside is that both the 
> adapter and the limits of the PCI-X will be "clipping" the available 
> I/O performance.  And the adapters are (were?) expensive.  David Turner 
> had a test here a few years ago, for instance.  No TRIM support in 
> OpenVMS too, which means that SSD performance can suffer further, too.  
>  This unless the particular SSD itself treats a zero sector write as an 
> implicit TRIM, and if OpenVMS erase-on-delete is enabled.
> 
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Hoff,
     thanks.  I may still have an IDE-SATA adapter in storage from shortly after SATA started taking over so maybe I can test it.  We have a 120GB SATA SSD thats just sitting in a box whose specs I can check.

     Hopefully the deal comes through on the Alpha or Alphas.