On 18/03/2008, Craig Ringer <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Isn't a 10 or 24 spindle RAID 5 array awfully likely to encounter a > double disk failure (such as during the load imposed by rebuild onto a > spare) ? I never said that we actually USED that set-up. I just said I did extensive testing with varied RAID-setups. ;} We did go with the 10 in the end because of that very consideration. It's just that the mantra "RAID5 = slow writes" isn't quite true. Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
