John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/11/11 6:10 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> Wait, wait. So using SSDs as FAST writing disks is a load of hogwash? You >> still need stuff like umem nvram cards? What's the deal with things like >> Fusion IO then? > > the high end enterprise SSDs have supercaps to give them time to flush > their write buffers to flash in case of power failure events. > > but these drives are way more expensive than the $200 120GB stuff you'll > find in the whitebox market. > > the whitebox stuff has fast writes because they buffer them, but in case > of power failure with pending write operations, all bets are off on your > data integrity. > > > If I understood correctly, SSD's, even whitebox are good to place ext3/4 journaling files on keeping ext3/4 partitions on HDD's. Right? I would appreciate real-case scenario advice for cheaper drives, for home and small business applications. Thanks Ljubomir