| From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jean-Denis Girard <jd(dot)girard(at)sysnux(dot)pf> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Data on NAS / NFS |
| Date: | 2007-07-28 18:54:24 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.64.0707281438560.6865@westnet.com |
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Jean-Denis Girard wrote:
> The NAS would be from LaCie, using 4 disks (Raid5 + spare)
> (http://www.lacie.com/fr/products/product.htm?pid=10876), mounted via NFS
> from a Linux server running Postgresql .
Leaving aside the general issue here for others to chime in on (my opinion
is that putting a PostgreSQL database on this class of network storage
would be crazy but I have no hard data to support that), I would strongly
recommend against any of LaCie's products in this area. The company got a
decent reputation based on their early Mac Firewire products, but it's
been a number of years since they released any product that I would
consider worth storing even a byte of data on. Their designs are buggy
from day one, the reliability is awful, and the issues stem from their
bridge chipsets.
It took me only seconds to find a sample page with multiple anecdotal
samples on this subject:
http://reviews.pricegrabber.com/hard-drives/m/11165851/
The problems with their products are so widespread I'm sure it would be
easy for you to find many more if you search around a bit.
--
* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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