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From: Andy <angelflow@yahoo.com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: Intel SSDs that may not suck
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:11:10 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <312218.14775.qm@web111305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9C21E99.2E925%scott@richrelevance.com>


--- On Wed, 4/6/11, Scott Carey <scott@richrelevance.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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