Re: Six PostgreSQL questions from a pokerplayer

From: Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>
To: Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>, Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Patvs <patvs(at)chello(dot)nl>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Six PostgreSQL questions from a pokerplayer
Date: 2009-07-06 08:47:08
Message-ID: C677081C.956D%scott@richrelevance.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-performance


On 7/6/09 1:43 AM, "Scott Carey" <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com> wrote:

>
>
>
> On 7/5/09 11:13 PM, "Mark Kirkwood" <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz> wrote:
>
>> Craig Ringer wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2009-07-04 at 11:51 -0700, Patvs wrote:
>>>
> There is no reason to go RAID 1 with SSD's if this is an end-user box and
> the data is recoverable. Unlike a hard drive, a decent SSD isn't expected
> to go bad.

Clarification -- normal hard drives are expected to have a chance of dying
within the first few months, or days. SSD's are expected to wear down
slowly and die eventually -- but better ones will do so by entering a
read-only state.

In response to

Browse pgsql-performance by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Greg Stark 2009-07-06 09:40:19 Re: Six PostgreSQL questions from a pokerplayer
Previous Message Scott Carey 2009-07-06 08:43:01 Re: Six PostgreSQL questions from a pokerplayer