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

Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> writes:

> On May 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> 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.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never heard of a 15kRPM SATA drive.

-Doug