Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B7E79FBBD9 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 03:38:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 73076-07 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 03:38:33 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7B39FBCD3 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 03:38:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l366cVsF000412; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 02:38:31 -0400 (EDT) To: Greg Smith cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA In-reply-to: References: <19221.1175751146@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1175786370.9839.31.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> <28551.1175839215@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Greg Smith message dated "Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:10:11 -0400" Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:38:31 -0400 Message-ID: <411.1175841511@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/155 X-Sequence-Number: 24032 Greg Smith writes: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, 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. > I've read that much of the damage that causes hard drive infant mortality > is related to shipping. Doh, of course. Maybe I'd better go to bed now... regards, tom lane