From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: david@lang.hm, Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>
Cc: Pgsql performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: 10K vs 15k rpm for analytics
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:57:19 -0500
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Scott Marlowe wrote:
> True, I just looked at the Hitachi 7200 RPM 2TB Ultrastar and it lists
> and average throughput of 134 Megabytes/second which is quite good.
>
Yeah, but have you tracked the reliability of any of the 2TB drives out
there right now? They're terrible. I wouldn't deploy anything more
than a 1TB drive right now in a server, everything with a higher
capacity is still on the "too new to be stable yet" side of the fence to me.
--
Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg@2ndQuadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us
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