Re: SAN vs Internal Disks - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tobias Brox
Subject Re: SAN vs Internal Disks
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Msg-id 20070912055058.GJ10199@oppetid.no
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In response to Re: SAN vs Internal Disks  (Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>)
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[Decibel! - Tue at 06:07:44PM -0500]
> It's still in the same chassis, though, which means if you lose memory
> or mobo you're still screwed. In a SAN setup for redundancy, there's
> very little in the way of a single point of failure; generally only the
> backplane, and because there's very little that's on there it's
> extremely rare for one to fail.

Funny, the only time we lost a database server was due to a backplane
failure ...

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