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On 26/01/2012 14:59, Peter Stuge wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I do have the impression that any block emulating device such as
SSD are unreliable w.r.t power cuts. I would love to be proven
wrong though :)
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Supposedly, Intel SSDs never report write completed before flash has
actually been updated. Good luck verifying that.
Everyone else buffers writes. The Samsung 830 series has 256MB of
SDRAM, and their multicore ARM controller handles the magic
buffering. Samsung 830 is built entirely by Samsung from Samsung
parts. All manufacturers besides Intel and Samsung use a mishmash
of components and firmware in their SSD products, and all do magic
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I can't find a reference right now, but I am under the impression
that the more expensive "enterprise" SSD modules now have some
battery backup onboard to allow writes to complete in sudden power
down situations? I read recently of one consumer report (probably
on Anand tech, but can't find it now...) which had also been fitted
with some kind of supercap to handle unexpected powerloss<br>
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(Update, google "SSD supercap" - seems like some of the higher end
Sandforce boards have such a thing, and on skimming it is implied
that the Vertex3 might have such a thing?)<br>
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I also found this paper which seemed interesting:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/papers/DAC2011PowerCut.pdf">http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/papers/DAC2011PowerCut.pdf</a><br>
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Seems like it's a rocky road ahead...<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Ed W<br>
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P.S. I think this phenomena explains what surely everyone here has
experienced, that if you rip out a USB flash drive while it's still
writing then every so often the whole drive just disappears (and
stays dead)? Also I have killed one CF almost certainly due to a
sudden reboot (but it was the design that has since been recalled by
PCEngines), and a few others that on reflection might have had a
sudden powerdown in a camera or while removing pictures from the
camera flash card... Read random amazon reviews of flash drives and
there are always a bunch of people who post when their drive totally
fails while it's new - again my bet would be many of these would be
explained by sudden unplugs during write...<br>
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