On 13-03-11 03:30 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: .. > I'm sure there are some SSDs that do violate their data integrity > commitments - a while ago some tests were done (don't have a link > handy and I don't think they identified the actual vendor/model of the > drives in any case) but there were definitely some SSDs that did do > nasty things like trash unrelated data if power was lost while > writing, etc. So we definitely don't want to risk this sort of thing > occurring on a normal power-off or suspend. Just about all current SATA SSDs advertise having some form(s) of "background garbage collection". That "feature" has always concerned me, because of the real possibility of power being removed (system shutdown) while the drive firmware is in the midst of re-shuffling my data around. One would hope that "STANDBY IMMEDIATE" is taken by the drive as a signal to stop that fussing about and prepare for full/sudden power-off. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
