Re: Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid
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Msg-id 5AF87D32-F602-4973-AA21-84E0CFEA1774@khera.org
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid  (Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
Re: Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On May 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Sorry that is an extremely misleading statement. SATA RAID is
> perfectly acceptable if you have a hardware raid controller with a
> battery backup controller.
>
> And dollar for dollar, SCSI will NOT be faster nor have the hard
> drive capacity that you will get with SATA.

Does this hold true still under heavy concurrent-write loads?  I'm
preparing yet another big DB server and if SATA is a better option,
I'm all (elephant) ears.


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