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The entire point of this post is that consumer SSDs provide no data loss protection in the event of an unexpected hard reset or power loss. Data security is onl
by bleepblorp 6y ago
The entire point of this post is that consumer SSDs provide no data loss protection in the event of an unexpected hard reset or power loss. Data security is only available in far more costly enterprise SSDs.
- wtallis 6y agoYou've missed out on the substance of the discussion too, then. Expensive enterprise SSDs make crash-proof data protection automatic. Consumer SSDs require the host system's software to explicitly flush the write cache when necessary. This tradeoff works extremely well in practice, and consumer SSDs don't have serious data loss problems for consumer workloads. Enterprise workloads that are much more paranoid about syncing every single transaction cannot safely use consumer SSDs without unacceptable performance loss, but that certainly doesn't mean that consumer SSDs are playing fast and loose with your data safety.