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Many disk drives contain onboard caches. Some of these
drives include battery-backup or other functionality that
guarantees that all cached data will be completely written if
the power fails. These drives can offer substantial
performance improvements over drives without caching support.
However, some caching drives rely on capacitors or other
mechanisms that guarantee only that the write of the current
sector will complete. These drives can endanger your database
and potentially cause corruption of your data.
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To avoid losing your data, make sure the caching on your
disk drives is properly configured so the drive will never
report that data has been written unless the data is
guaranteed to be written in the face of a power failure. Many
times, this means that write-caching on the disk drive must be
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