On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 08:33:04AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> >1) Has anyone had experience with Intel 520 SSDs? Are they reliable? >> >When they fail, do they fail nicely (ie, failure detected and bad drive >> >removed from RAID array) or horribly (data silently corrupted...) ? >> >> I don't recall if the 520s have powerloss protection but you will >> want to check that. > > I am pretty sure they don't. The only options are the Intel 320 and > 710, I think. Here is a blog about it: > > http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/intel_ssds_lifetime_and_the_32/ > > Look for "Enhanced Power Loss Data Protection". Intel does not make it > easy to find all drive that have it --- you have to look at each spec > sheet. The S3700 series also has power loss data protection: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-dc-s3700-series.html -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
