Phison PASCARI X200E 6.4 TB

[GabrielLP14]

The X200E is the first SSD we've tested featuring Phison’s new X2 controller—so far, it's the fastest Gen5 enterprise drive we've reviewed. Compared to other models in our test lineup, it stands out with noticeable advantages in both performance and overall consistency.

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[NoneRain]

damn

 

[bug]

Oh boy, losing half a terabyte just between the sticker and booting up the drive...
Power draw seems through the roof (looking at you, writes).
And also one of the few reviews where numbers past QD4 actually mean something.

 

[GabrielLP14]

Oh boy, losing half a terabyte just between the sticker and booting up the drive...
Power draw seems through the roof (looking at you, writes).
And also one of the few reviews where numbers past QD4 actually mean something.

Yeah enterprise SSDs have way higher power draws than consumer product, you can clearly see from the self reported power states.

But i hope you guys enjoyed it.

I'm re-testing on Ubuntu and soon wil publish comparison data

What does this have to do with this article?

i dont think i follow 0.o

 

[80-watt Hamster]

What does this have to do with this article?

i dont think i follow 0.o

Looks like your quoted post was response to another that's since been deleted.

 

[GabrielLP14]

Looks like your quoted post was response to another that's since been deleted.

Oh you're completly right, nice catch!

 

[KLMR]

Its great to have another place to read review of such products! Thank you very much.
It is unlikely that most of us will use this kinds of devices, but helps to get perspective between the consumer and enterprise products, which are getting appart very quick.

 

[GabrielLP14]

Its great to have another place to read review of such products! Thank you very much.
It is unlikely that most of us will use this kinds of devices, but helps to get perspective between the consumer and enterprise products, which are getting appart very quick.

Thanks buddy, hope you enjoyed it.

The thing is, older gen drives keeps getting cheaper and cheaper, also U.2 Gen4 adaptor are super cheaper as well, unless you're on the bleeding edge of technologie, you can get excelent drives for basically a little higher consumer price, but enterprise grade hardware.

 

[bug]

Yeah enterprise SSDs have way higher power draws than consumer product, you can clearly see from the self reported power states.

But i hope you guys enjoyed it.

I mean, it's an enterprise part, not much to get excited about there. But I appreciate a glimpse into another world.

I'm re-testing on Ubuntu and soon wil publish comparison data

Ubuntu is a conservative distro, I would use something more cutting edge. There's a bunch of activity in the Linux world around IO, with Ubuntu you'd be missing some of the more recent changes. I would suggest a rolling release, or, if you need a baseline for all benchmarks, something like Fedora.

 

[GabrielLP14]

I mean, it's an enterprise part, not much to get excited about there. But I appreciate a glimpse into another world.

Ubuntu is a conservative distro, I would use something more cutting edge. There's a bunch of activity in the Linux world around IO, with Ubuntu you'd be missing some of the more recent changes. I would suggest a rolling release, or, if you need a baseline for all benchmarks, something like Fedora.

Thanks for the feedbak, i also heard about using CentOS but i never used that distro tbh

 

[W1zzard]

There's a bunch of activity in the Linux world around IO, with Ubuntu you'd be missing some of the more recent changes.

Examples? I migrated all our servers from CentOS / Fedora to Ubuntu and couldn't be happier.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

If TPU is going to do more enterprise storage, I'd be truly appreciative if you could get your hands on and review several all-SLC drives

 

[bug]

Thanks for the feedbak, i also heard about using CentOS but i never used that distro tbh

Not CentOS (hasn't that been discontinued/replaced?), that's a mirror of RHEL, thus also on the conservative side.

There's probably a bigger discussion here. I mean, enterprise parts are most likely to be used together with enterprise (i.e. conservative) distros anyway. But I feel TPU's public is more about seeing the hardware pushed as far as possible.

Examples? I migrated all our servers from CentOS / Fedora to Ubuntu and couldn't be happier.

I believe this tops the list recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_uring
It's being added in various places.
Probably not a night and day difference overall, but, as tested at Phoronix, it can make big differences in some benchmarks.

 

[GabrielLP14]

If TPU is going to do more enterprise storage, I'd be truly appreciative if you could get your hands on and review several all-SLC drives

I'd love that as well, i'm trying to get in contact with several companies as well.
I'm also inclined in doing optane reviews, i do have an older 905p review here i could do an in-depth technical review explaining the differences between flash and Optane memory, if people would like that of course.

Not CentOS (hasn't that been discontinued/replaced?), that's a mirror of RHEL, thus also on the conservative side.

There's probably a bigger discussion here. I mean, enterprise parts are most likely to be used together with enterprise (i.e. conservative distros anyway). But I feel TPU's public is more about seeing the hardware pushed as far as possible.

I believe this tops the list recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_uring
It's being added in various places.
Probably not a night and day difference overall, but, as tested at Phoronix, it can make big differences in some benchmarks.

i was using io_uring in my linux script that i'm creating here to replace our Windows based test bench.

 

[W1zzard]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_uring

io_uring is old, many years

 

[bug]

io_uring is old, many years

It started long ago, yes. But it's still actively being implemented in various parts.
I think (but don't quote me on that) first the kernel added support for it and now it's being picked up by various subsystems or drivers.

Anyway, it was just an example. Linux is probably not fun for a hardware reviewer. It changes all the time, improves here and there, regresses from time to time, regressions get fixed... Then again, it's probably not that different from Windows and having to retest because some drivers were updated.

 

[SomeOne99h]

Not CentOS (hasn't that been discontinued/replaced?), that's a mirror of RHEL, thus also on the conservative side.

Yes it got discontinued. However, the founder of CentOS created another distro called Rocky Linux. It follows the same way that CentOS was going. It stays on old kernel and packages more than Debian.

About - Rocky Linux

It all started with a blog comment.

rockylinux.org