[CentOS] Suggest Hardware Raid Controller Card

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

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