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Re: dell versus hp

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>

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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: "Alan Hodgson" <ahodgson@simkin.ca>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-11-09T11:30:33Z
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* Scott Marlowe:

> If the right two disks fail in a RAID-10 you lose everything.
> Admittedly, that's a pretty remote possibility,

It's not, unless you carefully layout the RAID-1 subunits so that
their drives aren't physically adjacent. 8-/ I don't think many
controllers support that.

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