> On Dec 10, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Dave Pooser <dave...@pooserville.com> wrote: > > On 12/10/15, 12:13 PM, "OmniOS-discuss on behalf of Richard Elling" > <omnios-discuss-boun...@lists.omniti.com on behalf of > richard.ell...@richardelling.com> wrote: > >> >>> On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:58 AM, Tobias Oetiker <t...@oetiker.ch> wrote: >>> >>> Just found that samsung now has an ssd with power loss protection >>> >>> http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_sm863_ssd_review >>> >>> what do you think ? >> >> Power-loss protection is not required (ZFS works on HDDs :-) but it is a >> nice feature. > > On a device that will likely be used for ZIL, I'd call power-loss > protection required. HDDs don't lie to the OS about when data has been > flushed from cache to disk the way SSDs do, right?
You do need a device that honors cache flush commands. But that goes for any device or RAID array, not just SSDs. -- richard > > On a device that's going to be L2ARC I care a lot less, obviously. ;-) > -- > Dave Pooser > Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com > > > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss