Re: BBU still needed with SSD? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: BBU still needed with SSD?
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Msg-id 4E24D25D.6080809@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to BBU still needed with SSD?  (Andy <angelflow@yahoo.com>)
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Andy wrote:
> SSD has its own cache. And in certain models such as Intel 320 that cache is backed by capacitors. So in a sense that
cacheacts as a BBU that's backed by capacitors instead of batteries.  
>

Tests I did on the 320 series says it works fine:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4D9D1FC3.4020207@2ndQuadrant.com

And there's a larger discussion of this topic at
http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/en/2011/04/intel-ssd-now-off-the-sherr-sh.html
that answers this question in a bit more detail.

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Greg Smith   2ndQuadrant US    greg@2ndQuadrant.com   Baltimore, MD



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