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Which is basically how existing hybrid solutions that do read/write caching work...

Linode SSD seems to be going well so far, great speeds.

Eagerly awaiting the rollout, recently had issues with journaling causing high load, have had to move filesystems to ext4, I'm assuming SSD implementation would help resolve this and similar issues at least?

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Hi,

any news or benchmarks about this new setup?

Thanks

Will this work normally if I'm using pvgrub on a custom-patched kernel?

Yes, so far it sure is. (incredible)

I just migrated to an SSD-backed host today, and will begin testing this month (as early as this week)

(Someone on IRC answered my question about being able to run a pvgrub-loaded custom kernel. The answer was along the lines of "yes, the storage layer is handled on the dom0 host, so you can run your own kernel on the domU guest side of things and still get all the benefits of the linode SSD ..." I forget, it was something along those lines though. I'm just feeling too lazy right now so I can't be bothered to look up exact quote or who said what)

Also, I'm really excited that my new host is finally one that runs the "linode NextGen" 2.6ghz E5-2670 (a non-zero number of linode customers got upgraded to 8 cores, but it was on hosts with the 2.13ghz L5630 or otherwise similarly "nice, but disappointing" hardware to what I've been on for the past 4 months)

http://youtu.be/-KSryJXDpZo <--- this is relevant, description: (quote) "This was clipped out of recent TED talk given by Frans de Waal regarding moral behavior in animals. In a nut shell we get to observe reaction and response of two Capuchin monkey when they receive different reward for same type of work."

http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals.html <-- The original "TED Talk" it was clipped from.

While I appreciate the opportunity to participate in the SSD beta, sticking customers who all pay the same price on different hardware kinda "feels unfair"

Just some food for thought / sharing my $0.02 on the subject.

I'd love some to see some feedback here from the people testing. How stable is it so far? Did you come across issues?

If Linode staff can comment, how's the beta progressing? Any plans for new locations? (London London! )

It's been quite stable, and I haven't had any data loss or other disk-related weirdness.

I no longer have the problems with disk IO as my main bottleneck, now everything is pretty much CPU-bound like it should be

Just putting in my $0.02. I've migrated one of my non-critical services from a Ramnode KVM SSD-Cached box to a Linode SSD Beta and so far the Linode is out performing the Ramnode (same size nodes both 1G). It's only been a few hours but the server load has dropped by about 60%, IO wait is negligible, so far I'm happy.

One thing to note is that the box is shown as having a E5-2680 V2 CPU which is the first time I've seen that model on a Linode, the best I've seen before is the E5-2670 V2 (which is also good). It's good to see Linode are keeping their hardware fresh.

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How's the beta for this going? Any updates?

Hi,

Will we see the beta in UK in a near future too?

Best regards!

Hey guys - we're hard at work on the SSD effort, and it's quite exciting. We hope to have a bunch of announcements related to this beta (and more) sometime in Q1 of 2014. Stay tuned!

-Chris

Thank's for your feedback, Chris.

The beta is now closed. Thanks for all that have participated! Stay tuned!

-Chris