On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 16:04, Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2011-11-02 15:06, Kevin Grittner wrote: >> >> Yeb Havinga<yebhavinga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I'm now contemplating not using the 710 at all. Why should I not >>> buy two 6Gbps SSDs without supercap (e.g. Intel 510 and OCZ Vertex >>> 3 Max IOPS) with a IO controller+BBU? >> >> Wouldn't the data be subject to loss between the time the IO >> controller writes to the SSD and the time it makes it from buffers >> to flash RAM? > > Good question. My guess would be no, if the raid controller does > 'write-throughs' on the attached disks, and the SSD's don't lie about when > they've written to RAM. Doesn't most SSDs without supercaps lie about the writes, though? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
