From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Chris Angelico <rosuav(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Plug-pull testing worked, diskchecker.pl failed |
Date: | 2012-11-07 21:15:54 |
Message-ID: | 20121107211554.GI26215@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 02:12:39PM -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> >> >> I don't have the specs to hand, but one of them is a Kingston drive.
> >> >> Our local supplier is out of 320 series drives, so we were looking for
> >> >> others; will check out the 710s. It's crazy that so few drives can
> >> >> actually be trusted.
> >> >
> >> > Yes. Welcome to our craziness!
> >>
> >> Is there a comprehensive list of drives that have been tested on the
> >> wiki somewhere? Our current choices seem to be the Intel 3xx series
> >> which STILL suffer from the "whoops I'm now an 8MB drive" bug and the
> >> very expensive SLC 7xx series Intel drives, the Hitachi Ultrastar
> >> SSD400M, and the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro. Any particular recommendations
> >> from those or other series from anyone would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > No, I know of no official list. Greg Smith and I have tried to document
> > some of this on the wiki:
> >
> > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reliable_Writes
>
> Well I may get a budget at work to do some testing so I'll update that
> list etc. This has been a good thread to get me motivated to get
> started.
Yes, it seems database people are the few who care about device sync
reliability (or know to care).
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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