On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 04:27 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > 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 > Depends on the flash chips used. SLC flash is safer than MLC flash...but by how much I do not know.