From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: David Boreham <david_list@boreham.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:47:53 -0800
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> I guess I've never bought into the vendor story that there are
> two reliability grades. Why would they bother making two
> different kinds of bearing, motor etc ? Seems like it's more
> likely an excuse to justify higher prices. In my experience the
> expensive SCSI drives I own break frequently while the cheapo
> desktop drives just keep chunking along (modulo certain products
> that have a specific known reliability problem).
I don't know if the reliability grade is true or not but what I can tell
you is that I have scsi drives that are 5+ years old that still work without
issue.
I have never had an IDE drive last longer than 3 years (when used in
production).
That being said, so what. That is what raid is for. You loose a drive
and hot swap
it back in. Heck keep a hotspare in the trays.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> I'd expect that a larger number of hotter drives will give a less
> reliable
> system than a smaller number of cooler ones.
>
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