Re: Testing Sandforce SSD

On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 16:21 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> 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.

That is quite the toy. I can get 4 SATA-II with RAID Controller, with
battery backed cache, for the same price or less :P

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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