Amazing Performance Improvement in Old Server With Datacentre SSDs
Channel: Category5 Technology TV with Robbie Ferguson
Date: 2020-12-16

Kingston DC500 SSD Upgrade for Video Production and Storage Server = Improved Performance, Extremely Fast: 180x Faster than SAS Drives.

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It's time to upgrade the storage in our old server. Robbie sets out to see if he can genuinely tell the difference between his old spinning SAS drives and Kingston's DC500R SATA SSDs. Mark Noland from Kingston joins us to discuss the FIO benchmark results, how businesses of all sizes can benefit from the switch to SSD, and what's next to further improve storage performance in the server room. We'll also learn how datacentre drives differ from the standard SSD, and why Kingston's DC500 will outperform them long term.

00:00 Why We're Upgrading the Storage
01:10 Kingston DC500R / DC500M
01:57 How We'll Compare Our HDDs to DC500R SSDs
02:48 The Accuracy of Our Benchmark
03:17 Running Our Fio Drive Benchmark
03:27 Installing the SSDs in a 3.5-Inch Dell Tray: AMBER LIGHT
03:59 3D Printing Drive Sleds for Dell Servers
04:48 3D Printers Pay For Themselves Quickly
06:21 Fio Benchmark Results: HDD vs SSD RAID 5
07:06 Introducing Our Guest, Mark Noland (Kingston)
08:15 Summarizing Our Test Method
08:44 The SATA Bottleneck
09:21 SSD vs. HDD
11:02 Necessary Evil: Redundancy Adds Overhead & Reduces Performance
11:51 SSDs Virtually Eliminate Latency
12:47 How QoS (Quality of Service) Impacts Performance Consistency
14:16 The Importance of Pre-Conditioning (Burning In) Your SSD
14:41 Consumer vs. Enterprise SSD Differences: QoS and Over-Provisioning
15:06 TLC, SLC, QLC, MLC: Why Consumer Drives Use Pseudo SLC
16:18 Consistent QoS: Enterprise Drives Feature a Larger DRAM Cache
16:54 Over-Provisioning and Why It's Important (Why a 1 TB SSD is only 960 GB)
17:57 How Pre-Conditioning Improves Overall Performance Consistency
18:49 SSD vs HDD Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS)
19:06 The "Science" Behind SSD vs HDD IOPS
20:28 Our IOPS Fio Scores Compared
20:57 NVME M.2 and U.2 Further Reduce Bottlenecks by Eliminating SATA
23:58 Real World Performance Impact For Businesses Switching to SSDs
26:06 Gigabit Ethernet: Our New Data Bottleneck
27:06 Reliability of SSDs, Drive Writes Per Day and Kingston DC500 Warranty
29:39 Other Advantages to SSD: Reduced Noise, Heat and Power Consumption
30:09 HDD Spin Down Reduces Power Consumption, But Increases Latency
30:26 Hard Drives Still Have Their Place
31:00 Hard Drives Crawl When Multiple Users Access Simultaneously
32:49 Lower Latency Feels Notably Faster to Users
33:29 Breaking Through the DRAM by Working With Large Files
34:43 Kingston Technical Support: Second To None for Both Consumers and Enterprise Customers
37:35 Kingston's Rigorous Testing Practices
38:23 Sign Off