Re: inferior SCSI performance

From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: inferior SCSI performance
Date: 2003-10-01 10:33:38
Message-ID: 20031001103338.GA29293@libertyrms.info
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:46:00PM -0400, Michael Adler wrote:
> So the quesiton is whether it is ever sensible to use write-caching and
> expect comparable persistence.

Yes. If and only if you have a battery-backed cache. I know of no
IDE drives that have that, but there's nothing about the spec which
makes it impossible.

A

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