Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases ( - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Just pick up a SCSI drive and a consumer ATA drive.

Feel their weight.

You don't have to look inside to tell the difference.

Alex

On 11/16/05, David Boreham <david_list@boreham.org> wrote:
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>  I suggest you read this on the difference between enterprise/SCSI and
> desktop/IDE drives:
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> http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf
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>  This is exactly the kind of vendor propaganda I was talking about
>  and it proves my point quite well : that there's nothing specific relating
>  to reliability that is different between SCSI and SATA drives cited in that
> paper.
>  It does have a bunch of FUD such as 'oh yeah we do a lot more
>  drive characterization during manufacturing'.
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