Re: Testing Sandforce SSD

Greg Smith wrote:
> Note that not all of the Sandforce drives include a capacitor; I hope
> you got one that does!  I wasn't aware any of the SF drives with a
> capacitor on them were even shipping yet, all of the ones I'd seen
> were the chipset that doesn't include one still.  Haven't checked in a
> few weeks though.

Answer my own question here:  the drive Yeb got was the brand spanking
new OCZ Vertex 2 Pro, selling for $649 at Newegg for example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227535 and with
the supercacitor listed right in the main production specifications
there.  This is officially the first inexpensive (relatively) SSD with a
battery-backed write cache built into it.  If Yeb's test results prove
it works as it's supposed to under PostgreSQL, I'll be happy to finally
have a moderately priced SSD I can recommend to people for database
use.  And I fear I'll be out of excuses to avoid buying one as a toy for
my home system.

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