Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD93F2E01E5 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:16:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 86858-02 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:16:45 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from westnet.com (westnet.com [216.187.52.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F57E2E00A6 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:16:46 -0400 (AST) Received: from westnet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m235GiGM022106; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:16:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (gsmith@localhost) by westnet.com (8.14.0/8.13.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m235GiLv022102; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:16:44 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: westnet.com: gsmith owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 00:16:44 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Smith X-X-Sender: gsmith@westnet.com To: Steve Poe cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: How to choose a disc array for Postgresql? In-Reply-To: <721b21dc0803012337u55ddaa13l5517816659f8e100@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <721b21dc0803012337u55ddaa13l5517816659f8e100@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/20 X-Sequence-Number: 28974 On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Steve Poe wrote: > SATA seems cheaper and you can get more discs but I want to stay with > SCSI. Any good reasons to choose SATA over SCSI? I've collected up many of the past list comments on this subject and put a summary at http://www.postgresqldocs.org/index.php/SCSI_vs._IDE/SATA_Disks -- * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD