On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 02:12:39PM -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> >> I don't have the specs to hand, but one of them is a Kingston drive. > >> >> Our local supplier is out of 320 series drives, so we were looking for > >> >> others; will check out the 710s. It's crazy that so few drives can > >> >> actually be trusted. > >> > > >> > Yes. Welcome to our craziness! > >> > >> Is there a comprehensive list of drives that have been tested on the > >> wiki somewhere? Our current choices seem to be the Intel 3xx series > >> which STILL suffer from the "whoops I'm now an 8MB drive" bug and the > >> very expensive SLC 7xx series Intel drives, the Hitachi Ultrastar > >> SSD400M, and the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro. Any particular recommendations > >> from those or other series from anyone would be greatly appreciated. > > > > No, I know of no official list. Greg Smith and I have tried to document > > some of this on the wiki: > > > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reliable_Writes > > Well I may get a budget at work to do some testing so I'll update that > list etc. This has been a good thread to get me motivated to get > started. Yes, it seems database people are the few who care about device sync reliability (or know to care). -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
