| From: | "Steinar H(dot) Gunderson" <sgunderson(at)bigfoot(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases ( |
| Date: | 2005-11-16 18:51:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20051116185138.GA22831@uio.no |
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:06:25AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> There was a big commercial EMC style array in the hosting center at the
> same place that had something like a 16 wide by 16 tall array of IDE
> drives for storing pdf / tiff stuff on it, and we had at least one
> failure a month in it. Of course, that's 256 drives, so you're gonna
> have failures, and it was configured with a spare on every other row or
> some such. We just had a big box of hard drives and it was smart enough
> to rebuild automagically when you put a new one in, so the maintenance
> wasn't really that bad. The performance was quite impressive too.
If you have a cool SAN, it alerts you and removes all data off a disk
_before_ it starts giving hard failures :-)
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