Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55FD7650F00 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:35:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 91413-04 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:35:39 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64EF0650EC6 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:35:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (or-69-34-217-90.sta.embarqhsd.net [69.34.217.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5PFb9ki001594 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:37:10 -0700 Subject: Re: Hardware vs Software RAID From: "Joshua D. Drake" To: "Jonah H. Harris" Cc: Greg Smith , "Peter T. Breuer" , Matthew Wakeling , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <36e682920806250830o2de2e040lb1976aacb48f670b@mail.gmail.com> References: <200806251311.m5PDBNv23559@inv.it.uc3m.es> <36e682920806250830o2de2e040lb1976aacb48f670b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Command Prompt, Inc. Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:35:28 -0700 Message-Id: <1214408128.28228.1.camel@jd-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:37:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/140 X-Sequence-Number: 30490 On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:30 -0400, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Greg Smith 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