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One of the most important things is that enterprise drives are much more likely to be telling you the truth when they tell you your data is written to disk. Ev
by AlisdairO 13y ago
One of the most important things is that enterprise drives are much more likely to be telling you the truth when they tell you your data is written to disk. Even if it hasn't actually hit the platter, they'll have a battery or cap backup power supply that allows them to write anything still pending to disk before they run out of power. Consumer drives often lie horribly about whether data is truly durable.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoNot really an issue for building a reporting/aggregation database. But certainly something to think about when processing realtime financial transactions.