I decided to try the offer on LEB from Tzulo. The server was set up in a couple of hours. Decided to take a SSD over the 2TB hard drive.
System Info
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Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3470 @ 2.93GHz
CPU Cores : 8
Frequency : 2934.000 MHz
Memory : 16040 MB
Swap : 16373 MB
Uptime : 0 min,
OS : Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.16.0-60-generic
Hostname :
Speedtest (IPv4 only)
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Your public IPv4 is
Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 102MB/s
Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 64.3MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 29.8MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 24.8MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 27.5MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 43.7MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 9.77MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 8.02MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 9.27MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 30.7MB/s
Disk Speed
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I/O (1st run) : 176 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 160 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 173 MB/s
Average I/O : 169.667 MB/s
For $39 I'm not going to complain.
Model Family: Crucial/Micron RealSSD m4/C400/P400
Device Model: M4-CT128M4SSD2
Serial Number: 000000001152090060E0
LU WWN Device Id: 5 00a075 1090060e0
Firmware Version: 0309
User Capacity: 128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sun Feb 7 17:03:10 2016 CST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
AAM feature is: Unavailable
APM level is: 254 (maximum performance)
Rd look-ahead is: Enabled
Write cache is: Enabled
ATA Security is: Disabled, NOT FROZEN [SEC1]
Wt Cache Reorder: Enabled
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-K 100 100 050 - 0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 100 100 010 - 0
9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 100 100 001 - 24071
12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 100 100 001 - 50
170 Grown_Failing_Block_Ct PO--CK 100 100 010 - 0
171 Program_Fail_Count -O--CK 100 100 001 - 0
172 Erase_Fail_Count -O--CK 100 100 001 - 0
173 Wear_Leveling_Count PO--CK 099 099 010 - 44
174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct -O--CK 100 100 001 - 0
181 Non4k_Aligned_Access -O---K 100 100 001 - 8 8 0
183 SATA_Iface_Downshift -O--CK 100 100 001 - 0
184 End-to-End_Error PO--CK 100 100 050 - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect -O--CK 100 100 001 - 0
188 Command_Timeout -O--CK 100 100 001 - 0
189 Factory_Bad_Block_Ct -OSR-- 100 100 001 - 83
194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 100 100 000 - 0
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered -O-RCK 100 100 001 - 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK 100 100 001 - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--CK 100 100 001 - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----CK 100 100 001 - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -O--CK 100 100 001 - 0
202 Perc_Rated_Life_Used ---RC- 099 099 001 - 1
206 Write_Error_Rate -OSR-- 100 100 001 - 0
Worried about the life of the SSD...