| From: | "Daniel R(dot) Anderson" <dan(at)mathjunkies(dot)com> |
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| To: | Pgsql-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Performance tuning in PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2003-03-27 00:02:55 |
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On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 12:56, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> In General, the rotational speed is higher on SCSCI disks, and this increases
> the tranfer rate from the disc, which is the limitation for anything not in the
> disk's cache. Given the same areal dinsity, a 15,000 SCSI drive will be 50%
> faster in tranfer rate than a 10,000 IDE drive.
For anybody interested I got the story off of slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/0553249&mode=thread&tid=137
The claim is that these ATA drives have "SCSI-like specs at 30% less of
the price". SCSI-LIKE != SCSI though. :-(
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Daniel R. Anderson
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Great Lakes Industries, Inc.
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