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From: Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@kostyrka.org>
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>
Cc: david@lang.hm
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 01:17:55 +0200
Message-ID: <20070406231755.GA24498@andi-lap.la.revver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0704061838560.23748@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
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	<1175872847.9839.146.camel@state.g2switchworks.com>
	<Pine.LNX.4.64.0704061503230.17492@asgard.lang.hm>
	<Pine.OSX.4.64.0704061838560.23748@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>

* Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> [070407 00:49]:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> >
> >>Based on experience I think that on average server drives are more
> >>reliable than consumer grade drives, and can take more punishment.
> >
> >this I am not sure about
> 
> I think they should survey Tivo owners next time.
> 
> Perfect stress-testing environment.  Mine runs at over 50C most of the time, and it's writing 2 video streams 24/7.  What more could you do to punish a drive? :)

Well, there is one thing, actually what my dreambox does ;)

-) read/write 2 streams at the same time. (which means quite a bit of
seeking under pressure)
-) and even worse, standby and sleep states. And powering up the drive
when needed.

Andreas



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