Re: BBU still needed with SSD?

--- On Mon, 7/18/11, David Rees <drees76@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> In this case is BBU still needed? If I put 2 SSD
> in software RAID 1, would
> >> that be any slower than 2 SSD in HW RAID 1 with
> BBU? What are the pros and
> >> cons?
>
> What will perform better will vary greatly depending on the
> exact
> SSDs, rotating disks, RAID BBU controller and
> application.  But
> certainly a couple of Intel 320s in RAID1 seem to be an
> inexpensive
> way of getting very good performance while maintaining
> reliability.

I'm not comparing SSD in SW RAID with rotating disks in HW RAID with BBU though. I'm just comparing SSDs with or
withoutBBU. I'm going to get a couple of Intel 320s, just want to know if BBU makes sense for them.