From: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: Peter T. Breuer <ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es>
Cc: Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Hardware vs Software RAID
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:30:14 -0400
Message-ID: <36e682920806250830o2de2e040lb1976aacb48f670b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> 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.
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Jonah H. Harris, Sr. Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1324
EnterpriseDB Corporation | fax: 732.331.1301
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