Subject: Re: Testing Sandforce SSD
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Reply-To: jd@commandprompt.com
To: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:09:29 -0700
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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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