X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E789DD725 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:49:09 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13256-05 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:49:14 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from frank.wiles.org (frank.wiles.org [24.124.39.75]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B709DD75D for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 11:49:07 -0400 (AST) Received: from kungfu (frank.wiles.org [127.0.0.1]) by frank.wiles.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id jB9FnA4x004333; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:49:11 -0600 Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:50:20 -0600 From: Frank Wiles To: Scott Marlowe Cc: vivek@khera.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: opinion on disk speed Message-Id: <20051209095020.73e603ca.frank@wiles.org> In-Reply-To: <1134064233.3587.20.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> References: <3E73FEF8-DD9D-4DF7-9BB1-C020A4186296@khera.org> <1134064233.3587.20.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.1 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200512/262 X-Sequence-Number: 16083 On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:50:33 -0600 Scott Marlowe wrote: > Power consumption isn't much differnt, about a watt more for the 15ks, > so that's no big deal. I'd do a bit of googling to see if there are a > lot more horror stories with 15k drives than with the 10k ones. Just an FYI, but I've run both 10k and 15k rpm drives in PostgreSQL servers and haven't experienced any "horror stories". They do run hotter, but this shouldn't be a big issue in a decent case in a typical server room environment. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles http://www.wiles.org ---------------------------------