Re: SSD Drives

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SSD Drives
Date: 2014-04-04 17:49:12
Message-ID: 533EF098.2090704@hogranch.com
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On 4/4/2014 10:15 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> 2. Do I need both BBU on the RAID*and* capacitor on the SSD or just on one?
>> >Which one? I'm suspecting capacitor on the SSD and write-through on the
>> >RAID.
> You need both. The capacitor protects the drive, the BBU protects the
> raid controller.
>

note BBU's on raid cards are being replaced by 'flash-back' which is a
supercap and flash memory backup for the raid card's write-back cache.

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