Re: Intel SSDs that may not suck

From: Andy <angelflow(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Intel SSDs that may not suck
Date: 2011-04-06 21:11:10
Message-ID: 312218.14775.qm@web111305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
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--- On Wed, 4/6/11, Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com> wrote:

> 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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