Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A103D9FB4C0 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:20:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 93154-01 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:20:33 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-254.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.254]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABEE9FB389 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:20:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (or-67-76-146-141.sta.embarqhsd.net [67.76.146.141]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l383K8MD027410; Sat, 7 Apr 2007 20:20:12 -0700 Message-ID: <46185F7C.5070408@commandprompt.com> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:20:28 -0700 From: "Joshua D. Drake" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: david@lang.hm CC: Ron , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA References: <1175872847.9839.146.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> <200704070235.l372ZiQ25465@momjian.us> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.5, clamav-milter version 0.88.5 on projects.commandprompt.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (lists.commandprompt.com [192.168.2.159]); Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:20:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/199 X-Sequence-Number: 24076 >>> 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 -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/