SSD PATA in MXe II or CX controllers?

[petr.necas]

As I know SSD drives are not supported in the old MXe II or CX controllers, but do anybody have any experience with SSD PATA drives (e.g. Transcend SSD330 - 32GB TS32GPSD330) in these controllers? I know Mitel support will then not provide any support, but it will be on our risk.

[billbry66]

if your not worried about lack of support then i cant see it being a problem

give it a go , use the tech handbook motcc method with a FixPartition option
- this should format the drive and create the appropriate partitions

if the controller boots then should be good to go

[Ronan]

It can't be worse than 10 years old PATA DD. I've just spent 4 hours replacing one in an MXe, most of that time lost because the thing is slow as hell.

[acejavelin]

I have used lots of "off-the-shelf" drives in older 3300 controllers, never had an issue, as mentioned before just make sure to use the FixPartition flag when installing the software (follow guide in Tech Handbook). I don't see any reason that this wouldn't work as long as the controller recognizes the drive and boots, which shouldn't be an issue since most of those PATA/SSD drives emulate a normal IDE hard drive to the BIOS.

[petr.necas]

The SW gets lower and slower, I was surprised how fast was the old ICP 8.0 installed on CX with HDD compared to the latest MCD 8.0. I will order the SSD and do some measurements....

[petr.necas]

I tested the Transcend SSD330 - 32GB TS32GPSD330 inside our lab CX controller, the drive worked well, however there was not any performace increase compared to the original Hitachi 80GB hardrive :-(.

Here are my results:

                                                     HDD                  SSD
manual software installation:           37 min               39 min
database restore:                           34 min               33 min
database backup:                           4:53 min            4:43 min
restart (RESET SYSTEM command)   17 min 43 sec    17 min 30 secs
DBMS CHECK FULL                          5 min 50 sec      5 min 40 secs

[acejavelin]

Interesting and unexpected. Guess that means the hard drive is clearly not the bottleneck in the speed of these things. :/

Then again, I am trying to think about the few SSD MXeIII's I have done... I don't recall them being any faster than the standard HDD models either, but I never really thought about it until now.