Re: New server setup - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On 03/13/2013 09:15 AM, John Lister wrote:
> On 13/03/2013 15:50, Greg Jaskiewicz wrote:
>> SSDs have much shorter life then spinning drives, so what do you do
>> when one inevitably fails in your system ?
> Define much shorter? I accept they have a limited no of writes, but
> that depends on load. You can actively monitor the drives "health"
> level...

What concerns me more than wear is this:

InfoWorld Article:
http://www.infoworld.com/t/solid-state-drives/test-your-ssds-or-risk-massive-data-loss-researchers-warn-213715

Referenced research paper:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast13/understanding-robustness-ssds-under-power-fault

Kind of messes with the "D" in ACID.

Cheers,
Steve