Re: SCSI vs SATA

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Peter Kovacs <maxottovonstirlitz(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andreas Kostyrka <andreas(at)kostyrka(dot)org>, "david(at)lang(dot)hm" <david(at)lang(dot)hm>, Geoff Tolley <geoff(at)polimetrix(dot)com>, Ron <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net>, "jason(at)ohloh(dot)net" <jason(at)ohloh(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA
Date: 2007-04-04 13:36:20
Message-ID: 20070404133620.GD8549@alvh.no-ip.org
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Peter Kovacs escribió:
> But if an individual disk fails in a disk array, sooner than later you
> would want to purchase a new fitting disk, walk/drive to the location
> of the disk array, replace the broken disk in the array and activate
> the new disk. Is this correct?

Ideally you would have a spare disk to let the array controller replace
the broken one as soon as it breaks, but yeah, that would be more or
less the procedure. There is a way to defer the walk/drive until a more
convenient opportunity presents.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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