Re: Intel SSDs that may not suck

Not for user data, only controller data.



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>Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
>From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org (on behalf of Andy <angelflow@yahoo.com>)
>Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Intel SSDs that may not suck
>To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>,Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com>
>Cc: "pgsql-performance@postgresql.org" <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>,Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
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>--- On Wed, 4/6/11, Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com> wrote:
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>> I could care less about the 'fast' sandforce drives. 
>> They fail at a high
>> rate and the performance improvement is BECAUSE they are
>> using a large,
>> volatile write cache. 
>
>The G1 and G2 Intel MLC also use volatile write cache, just like most SandForce drives do.
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