Re: ATA disks and RAID controllers for database servers - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mark Kirkwood
Subject Re: ATA disks and RAID controllers for database servers
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Msg-id 3FB6DF92.8050407@paradise.net.nz
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In response to Re: ATA disks and RAID controllers for database servers  (Jeff <threshar@torgo.978.org>)
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Jeff wrote:

>
>UNless the controller itself has a battery backed cache it is dangerous - there are many more failures than losing
power. Ie, blowing out the power supply or cpu.  We've burnt up a fair share of cpu's over the years.  Luckly on a Sun
itisn't that big a deal.. but on x86. wel... you get the idea. 
>
>
Agreed. Power supply failure seems to be an ever present menace - had
one last month on a Sun E220, 3 years old - it's saying "replace me" :-)

regards

Mark


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