>> [ ... ] sync=1 really differentiates drives and you really >> find which drives are better. [ ... ] > It is not necessarily "better" in a strict sense: flash SSD > devices with supercapacitor-backed persistent caches [ ... ] http://www.storagereview.com/images/Samsung-SSD-SM825-PCB-Bottom.jpg http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_ssd_sm825_enterprise_ssd_review http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/storage_supercapacitors/ http://us.apacer.com/business/technology/CorePower_Technology http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=34417 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html