On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The real danger with consumer drives is they don't have supercaps and > can and will therefore corrupt your data on power failure. The actual > write cycles aren't a big deal for many uses, as now even consumer > drives have very long write cycle lives. Don't forget about the Crucial M500, M550 and Samsung 840 Pro - those all have power loss protection, though have other drawbacks. The Crucial drives in particular don't expose any sort of wear status through SMART. -Dave -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
