Re: SCSI vs SATA - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: SCSI vs SATA
Date
Msg-id 20070404133620.GD8549@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: SCSI vs SATA  ("Peter Kovacs" <maxottovonstirlitz@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: SCSI vs SATA  (Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@kostyrka.org>)
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Peter Kovacs escribió:
> But if an individual disk fails in a disk array, sooner than later you
> would want to purchase a new fitting disk, walk/drive to the location
> of the disk array, replace the broken disk in the array and activate
> the new disk. Is this correct?

Ideally you would have a spare disk to let the array controller replace
the broken one as soon as it breaks, but yeah, that would be more or
less the procedure.  There is a way to defer the walk/drive until a more
convenient opportunity presents.

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