IBM SSD: fast and efficient
February 18, 2022

IBM SSD: fast and efficient

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM SSD

I have been using IBM SSDs on a small numbers of servers for a number of years now, these are used primarily in our Tableau instances and selected for their high performance as OS Drives. Those servers require fast I/O when it comes to the end user interface (via online portal) and IBM SDDs respond perfectly to that need.

Pros

  • I/O Speed
  • Ease of configuration
  • Ease of replacement in case of failure

Cons

  • Capacity, can always use more space.
  • Speed because its never enough.
  • Longevity, although already it's quite good, longer MTFB is always better.
  • High I/O for fast server restarts
  • Ease of setting up via IBM Software/backend
  • Adequate MTBF
  • Good Return on Investment as none have been replaced so far
  • High response time from online portal for web users

Do you think IBM SSD delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM SSD's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM SSD live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM SSD go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM SSD again?

Yes

I personally think IBM SSDs are very well suited in use case such as OS drives, used in RAID1 Mirror or even RAID0 for speed they can handle fast reboot on servers and deliver very good I/O. I wouldn't use IBM SSDs for high, sustain I/O operations such as databases however as I feel this is best done a flash array.

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