On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:21 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > Greg Smith wrote: > > Note that not all of the Sandforce drives include a capacitor; I hope > > you got one that does! I wasn't aware any of the SF drives with a > > capacitor on them were even shipping yet, all of the ones I'd seen > > were the chipset that doesn't include one still. Haven't checked in a > > few weeks though. > > Answer my own question here: the drive Yeb got was the brand spanking > new OCZ Vertex 2 Pro, selling for $649 at Newegg for example: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227535 and with > the supercacitor listed right in the main production specifications > there. This is officially the first inexpensive (relatively) SSD with a > battery-backed write cache built into it. If Yeb's test results prove > it works as it's supposed to under PostgreSQL, I'll be happy to finally > have a moderately priced SSD I can recommend to people for database > use. And I fear I'll be out of excuses to avoid buying one as a toy for > my home system. That is quite the toy. I can get 4 SATA-II with RAID Controller, with battery backed cache, for the same price or less :P Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
