Re: Performance tuning in PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 12:56, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> In General, the rotational speed is higher on SCSCI disks, and this increases
> the tranfer rate from the disc, which is the limitation for anything not in the
> disk's cache. Given the same areal dinsity, a 15,000 SCSI drive will be 50%
> faster in tranfer rate than a 10,000 IDE drive.

For anybody interested I got the story off of slashdot:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/0553249&mode=thread&tid=137

The claim is that these ATA drives have "SCSI-like specs at 30% less of
the price".  SCSI-LIKE != SCSI though.  :-(

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