On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Robert Schnabel <schnabelr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > the phone with Seagate. When I built the first array I bought a single > spare drive. As soon as two drives die I'm going to be in the position of > having to either scrap all of them or buy a new controller that will work > with the new firmware. If I hadn't bought that extra drive the array would > be dead as soon as one of the drives goes. > > My point is... if you have the means, buy at least one spare while you can. I'd go shopping for more spares on ebay now... -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance