Re: Opinions on SSDs

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 08:33:04AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> >1) Has anyone had experience with Intel 520 SSDs?  Are they reliable?
>> >When they fail, do they fail nicely (ie, failure detected and bad drive
>> >removed from RAID array) or horribly (data silently corrupted...) ?
>>
>> I don't recall if the 520s have powerloss protection but you will
>> want to check that.
>
> I am pretty sure they don't.  The only options are the Intel 320 and
> 710, I think.  Here is a blog about it:
>
>         http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/intel_ssds_lifetime_and_the_32/
>
> Look for "Enhanced Power Loss Data Protection".  Intel does not make it
> easy to find all drive that have it --- you have to look at each spec
> sheet.

The S3700 series also has power loss data protection:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-dc-s3700-series.html