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From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:43:38 -0400
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On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:00:15AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>It seems hard to believe that the vendors themselves wouldn't burn in
>the drives for half a day, if that's all it takes to eliminate a large
>fraction of infant mortality.  The savings in return processing and
>customer goodwill would surely justify the electricity they'd use.

Wouldn't help if the reason for the infant mortality is bad handling 
between the factory and the rack. One thing that I did question in the 
CMU study was the lack of infant mortality--I've definately observed it, 
but it might just be that my UPS guy is clumsier than theirs.

Mike Stone



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