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Re: Firmware update now available - Addresses Bad Context 13x Error

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:06:34 GMT

The 64pieces 160GB 320er SSD now in productive conditions for over an month. No 8Mb Bug occur again and my customer told me that the speed is fantastic. At the moment we are really happy with 320er SSDs in servers.

Greetings Dediderius

Re: Firmware update now available - Addresses Bad Context 13x Error

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:10:25 GMT

Also the last 16 SSDs pass the tests without problems. Now we send them to our customer and hope they will also survive in productive competition.

Greetings

Desiderius

Re: Firmware update now available - Addresses Bad Context 13x Error

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:53:15 GMT

Now i have the last 16 in test. The 48 pieces before passes all an full run h2testw and 2-3 days Stresstesting with bonnie++ in ( 8xSSD / Raid10 / Adaptec 5805 )

None of them has made any problems.

Greetings

Desiderius

Re: Firmware update now available - Addresses Bad Context 13x Error

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:48:15 GMT

I update my 64x 320er Series 160GB SSDs. First 8 pieces are stress testing now for 2 days in Raid10 ( Adaptec 5805 ) with bonnie++. Also i plug out the power cord while stress testing to simulate an power failure. But no one of the 8 SSDs have the 8MB failure. With the old firmware after 2h stress testing with bonnie++ the first SSDs getting broken. For us it seems that the firmware update had solve our problem. I think its to early to say everything its okay, but it looks good.

Re: Update on "Bad Context 13x Error"

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:22:48 GMT

Intel says that the 320er Serie is also for server. Only the 510er Serie have no passing for server. Intel always are proud to say thats the forefather X25-M is so good in server. Here an translation from an german articel:

Intel is particularly proud that in the servers of a unnamed OEM customers used X25-m is still significantly less than expected: only 0.46 percent of the more than 100,000 storage were returned (annual return rate, ARR) and only 0.26 percent were actually broken.

http://www.heise.de/ct/meldung/Intel-SSD-320-Nachfolger-der-Baureihe-X25-M-1216456.html

We have over 150 Intel X25-M Generation 1 and Generation 2 SSDs for customers in hardcore database servers. Such customers need the speed advantage over SAS and know the risk of the new technologie SSD. But the speed plus is impressive. Also i can say that we have a really low failure rate on the X25-M SSDs over the 2 years. We also testing Intel X25-E Series but the customers is the Price/Gigabyte to expensive.

From 64 Intel 320er 160GB SSD are 17 broken after 3-5 days of stress testing with the 8MB bug. Now we stop all tests and hope for the firmware update.