From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:20:28 -0700
Message-ID: <46185F7C.5070408@commandprompt.com> (raw)
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>>> I believe that the biggest cause for data loss from people useing the
>>> 'cheap' drives is due to the fact that one 'cheap' drive holds the
>>> capacity of 5 or so 'expensive' drives, and since people don't
>>> realize this they don't realize that the time to rebuild the failed
>>> drive onto a hot-spare is correspondingly longer.
>> Commodity HDs get 1 year warranties for the same reason enterprise HDs
>> get 5+ year warranties: the vendor's confidence that they are not
>> going to lose money honoring the warranty in question.
>
> at least seagate gives 5 year warranties on their consumer drives.
Hitachi 3 years
Maxtor 3 years
Samsung 1-3 years depending on drive (but who buys samsung drives)
Seagate 5 years (300 Gig, 7200 RPM perpendicular recording... 89 bucks)
Western Digital 3-5 years depending on drive
Joshua D. Drake
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