Re: Fwd: Re: SSDD reliability

From: "mark" <dvlhntr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "'Toby Corkindale'" <toby(dot)corkindale(at)strategicdata(dot)com(dot)au>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: SSDD reliability
Date: 2011-05-19 00:50:28
Message-ID: 00ec01cc15be$c0c75440$4255fcc0$@com
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> Note 1:
> I have seen an array that was powered on continuously for about six
> years, which killed half the disks when it was finally powered down,
> left to cool for a few hours, then started up again.
>

Recently we rebooted about 6 machines that had uptimes of 950+ days.
Last time fsck had run on the file systems was 2006.

When stuff gets that old, has been on-line and under heavy load all that
time you actually get paranoid about reboots. In my newly reaffirmed
opinion, at that stage reboots are at best a crap shoot. We lost several
hours to that gamble more than we had budgeted for. HP is getting more of
their gear back than in a usual month.

Maybe that is just life with HP.

-M

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