--- title: SSD Storage - Two Months In Production | daily.dev description: A two-month production report on migrating IO-intensive servers (Puppet, GitLab, Redmine, Nagios, Docker DB hosts) to an SSD storage cluster. Key findings... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ssd-storage---two-months-in-production-i3oynmss4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: SSD Storage - Two Months In Production | daily.dev og:description: A two-month production report on migrating IO-intensive servers (Puppet, GitLab, Redmine, Nagios, Docker DB hosts) to an SSD storage cluster. Key findings... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ssd-storage---two-months-in-production-i3oynmss4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/I3oYnmSs4.png og:image:alt: SSD Storage - Two Months In Production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # SSD Storage - Two Months In Production **[Sam McLeod](https://daily.dev/sources/smcleod)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A two-month production report on migrating IO-intensive servers (Puppet, GitLab, Redmine, Nagios, Docker DB hosts) to an SSD storage cluster. Key findings include zero hardware/software failures, 300-500% reduction in VM IO latency, eliminated IOWait issues, and unexpected benefits like decreased network latency and faster SSH logins. Compared to HP StoreVirtual SANs which suffered 3 disk failures in the same period. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [iSCSI vs. NVMe/TCP: The ultimate storage showdown for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization](https://daily.dev/posts/iscsi-vs-nvme-tcp-the-ultimate-storage-showdown-for-red-hat-openshift-virtualization-chlfm9pk4) · Red Hat Developer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#storage](https://daily.dev/tags/storage) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ssd-storage---two-months-in-production-i3oynmss4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"SSD Storage - Two Months In Production","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ssd-storage---two-months-in-production-i3oynmss4","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ssd-storage---two-months-in-production-i3oynmss4"},"datePublished":"2026-03-31T12:29:08.443Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T12:48:31.634Z","description":"A two-month production report on migrating IO-intensive servers (Puppet, GitLab, Redmine, Nagios, Docker DB hosts) to an SSD storage cluster. Key findings...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3a03dcba00bbb98389358d0a1238fc83?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3a03dcba00bbb98389358d0a1238fc83?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Sam McLeod","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Sam McLeod","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s---ERPerFg--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774960030/logos/smcleod?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/smcleod"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/ssd-storage---two-months-in-production-i3oynmss4","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"infrastructure,storage","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sam McLeod","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/smcleod"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"SSD Storage - Two Months In Production"}]} ```