Re: Hardware vs Software RAID

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: "Peter T(dot) Breuer" <ptb(at)inv(dot)it(dot)uc3m(dot)es>, "Matthew Wakeling" <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hardware vs Software RAID
Date: 2008-06-25 15:30:14
Message-ID: 36e682920806250830o2de2e040lb1976aacb48f670b@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:
> SMART doesn't detect 100% of drive failures in advance, but you'd be silly
> to setup a database system where you don't get to take advantage of the
> ~50% it does catch before you lose any data.

Can't argue with that one.

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