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Re: SAN vs Internal Disks


  • From: Tobias Brox <tobias(at)nordicbet(dot)com>
  • To: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
  • Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: SAN vs Internal Disks
  • Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:50:58 +0200
  • Message-id: <20070912055058.GJ10199@oppetid.no> <text/plain>

[Decibel! - Tue at 06:07:44PM -0500]
> It's still in the same chassis, though, which means if you lose memory
> or mobo you're still screwed. In a SAN setup for redundancy, there's
> very little in the way of a single point of failure; generally only the
> backplane, and because there's very little that's on there it's
> extremely rare for one to fail.

Funny, the only time we lost a database server was due to a backplane
failure ...



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