From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: Peter T. Breuer <ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es>
Cc: Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Hardware vs Software RAID
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:35:28 -0700
Message-ID: <1214408128.28228.1.camel@jd-laptop> (raw)
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On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:30 -0400, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
> > SMART doesn't detect 100% of drive failures in advance, but you'd be silly
> > to setup a database system where you don't get to take advantage of the
> > ~50% it does catch before you lose any data.
>
> Can't argue with that one.
SMART has certainly saved our butts more than once.
Joshua D. Drake
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