Re: Testing Sandforce SSD - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Ben Chobot
Subject Re: Testing Sandforce SSD
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Msg-id BCE98D80-945D-4E20-8AA2-4E309741A29D@silentmedia.com
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In response to Testing Sandforce SSD  (Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com>)
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On Jul 24, 2010, at 12:20 AM, Yeb Havinga wrote:

> The problem in this scenario is that even when the SSD would show not data loss and the rotating disk would for a few
times,a dozen tests without failure isn't actually proof that the drive can write it's complete buffer to disk after
powerfailure. 

Yes, this is always going to be the case with testing like this - you'll never be able to prove that it will always be
safe. 

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