On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Greg Smith wrote:
> In order for a drive to work reliably for database use such as for
> PostgreSQL, it cannot have a volatile write cache. You either need a write
> cache with a battery backup (and a UPS doesn't count), or to turn the cache
> off. The SSD performance figures you've been looking at are with the drive's
> write cache turned on, which means they're completely fictitious and
> exaggerated upwards for your purposes. In the real world, that will result
> in database corruption after a crash one day.
Seagate are claiming to be on the ball with this one.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/08/seagate_pulsar_ssd/
Matthew
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