# [OmniOS-discuss] Samsung SM863

Dave Pooser dave-oo at pooserville.com
Thu Dec 10 20:02:45 UTC 2015

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    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:
    >>
    >> Just found that samsung now has an ssd with  power loss protection
    >>
    >> http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_sm863_ssd_review
    >>
    >> what do you think ?
    >
    >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

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