From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Cc: Pgsql-Performance ((E-mail)) <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 08:51:39 -0700
Message-ID: <4460BA8B.7010600@commandprompt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473FC220-A52C-4954-81E9-A14ED33164C2@blighty.com>
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<473FC220-A52C-4954-81E9-A14ED33164C2@blighty.com>
>
> Don't buy those drives. That's unrelated to whether you use hardware
> or software RAID.
Sorry that is an extremely misleading statement. SATA RAID is perfectly
acceptable if you have a hardware raid controller with a battery backup
controller.
And dollar for dollar, SCSI will NOT be faster nor have the hard drive
capacity that you will get with SATA.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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