| From: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> |
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| To: | postgresql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Recomended FS |
| Date: | 2003-10-20 23:10:35 |
| Message-ID: | 200310201610.35531.scrawford@pinpointresearch.com |
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On Monday 20 October 2003 10:28 am, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Peter Childs wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > > A fast HD with a good RAID controller. Subject to budget, SCSI
> > > are beter buy than IDE. So does hardware SCSI RAID.
> >
> > I hate asking this again. But WHY?
> >
> > What SCSI gain in spinning at 15000RPM and larger buffers. They
> > lose in Space, and a slower bus. I would like to see some profe.
> > Sorry.
>
> SCSI beats IDE hands down for databases, and for one reason above
> all the rest. They don't generally lie about fsync.
>....
Talk about timing...this article posted today seems quite apropos
(spoiler: SCSI beats IDE):
http://hardware.devchannel.org/hardwarechannel/03/10/20/1953249.shtml?tid=20&tid=38&tid=49
Cheers,
Steve
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