On 4/4/2014 10:15 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
2. Do I need both BBU on the RAID*and* capacitor on the SSD or just on one? >Which one? I'm suspecting capacitor on the SSD and write-through on the >RAID.You need both. The capacitor protects the drive, the BBU protects the raid controller.
note BBU's on raid cards are being replaced by 'flash-back' which is a supercap and flash memory backup for the raid card's write-back cache.
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