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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Peter Kovacs <maxottovonstirlitz@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@kostyrka.org>
Cc: david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
Cc: Geoff Tolley <geoff@polimetrix.com>
Cc: Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
Cc: jason@ohloh.net <jason@ohloh.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:36:20 -0400
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Peter Kovacs escribió:
> But if an individual disk fails in a disk array, sooner than later you
> would want to purchase a new fitting disk, walk/drive to the location
> of the disk array, replace the broken disk in the array and activate
> the new disk. Is this correct?

Ideally you would have a spare disk to let the array controller replace
the broken one as soon as it breaks, but yeah, that would be more or
less the procedure.  There is a way to defer the walk/drive until a more
convenient opportunity presents.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.



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