| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Schnabel <schnabelr(at)missouri(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: raid10 hard disk choice |
| Date: | 2009-05-21 16:39:22 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10905210939g79f231a5m4a9b7cf572224f20@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Robert Schnabel <schnabelr(at)missouri(dot)edu> wrote:
> the phone with Seagate. When I built the first array I bought a single
> spare drive. As soon as two drives die I'm going to be in the position of
> having to either scrap all of them or buy a new controller that will work
> with the new firmware. If I hadn't bought that extra drive the array would
> be dead as soon as one of the drives goes.
>
> My point is... if you have the means, buy at least one spare while you can.
I'd go shopping for more spares on ebay now...
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