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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:21:21 -0400
From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
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To: Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Testing Sandforce SSD
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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.

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Greg Smith  2ndQuadrant US  Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg@2ndQuadrant.com   www.2ndQuadrant.us