[OmniOS-discuss] Samsung SM863

[Dave Pooser]

On 12/10/15, 12:13 PM, "OmniOS-discuss on behalf of Richard Elling"
<omnios-discuss-bounces at lists.omniti.com on behalf of
richard.elling at richardelling.com> wrote:

>
>> On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:58 AM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
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>> Just found that samsung now has an ssd with  power loss protection
>> 
>> http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_sm863_ssd_review
>> 
>> what do you think ?
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>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?

On a device that's going to be L2ARC I care a lot less, obviously. ;-)
-- 
Dave Pooser
Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com