> Well, you are right.. and I'm responsible. > > What I was trying to point out was that storage people try to treat SSDs as HDDs... > and SSDs are very different. Harddrives mostly survive powerfails (with emergency > parking), while it is very, very difficult to make SSD survive random powerfail, > and we have to make sure we always powerdown SSDs "cleanly". It all depends on the class of SSD that we're discussing. "Enterprise class" SSDs will often use either ultracapacitors or batteries to allow them to successfully complete all of the necessary operations upon a power cut. This e-mail and the information, including any attachments it contains, are intended to be a confidential communication only to the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender and destroy the original message. Thank you. Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- 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
