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. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast