Re: [GENERAL] advice on buying sun hardware to run postgres

From: Chris Bitmead <chris(dot)bitmead(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] advice on buying sun hardware to run postgres
Date: 1999-04-28 02:43:58
Message-ID: 372675EE.4DB482E9@bigfoot.com
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dustin sallings wrote:

> I'm not sure where you get 50/50. I've not met anyone who
> recommended IDE disks over SCSI disks unless the only factor was price,

No, I'm saying that if you've only got 1 or 2 disks, opinion seems
divided over whether the difference in performance is enough to be
concerned about.

> // Have you done such tests? If so, what exactly were the results?
>
> I don't need to. I've used both in real world environments. I
> know just enough about the hardware to explain why IDE has always been
> slower than SCSI in my environments.

Doesn't sound very scientific to me.

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