| From: | David Rees <drees76(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Lists <lists(at)benjamindsmith(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: SSD Drives |
| Date: | 2014-04-05 06:22:31 |
| Message-ID: | CAHtT9Rty0eB5ob0060XS0w3EfVM7Tdc0k6m3X9f7qBTYUu4NeA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> The real danger with consumer drives is they don't have supercaps and
> can and will therefore corrupt your data on power failure. The actual
> write cycles aren't a big deal for many uses, as now even consumer
> drives have very long write cycle lives.
Don't forget about the Crucial M500, M550 and Samsung 840 Pro - those
all have power loss protection, though have other drawbacks. The
Crucial drives in particular don't expose any sort of wear status
through SMART.
-Dave
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