Re: opinion on disk speed

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:50:33 -0600
Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> wrote:

> Power consumption isn't much differnt, about a watt more for the 15ks,
> so that's no big deal.  I'd do a bit of googling to see if there are a
> lot more horror stories with 15k drives than with the 10k ones.

  Just an FYI, but I've run both 10k and 15k rpm drives in PostgreSQL
  servers and haven't experienced any "horror stories".  They do run
  hotter, but this shouldn't be a big issue in a decent case in a
  typical server room environment.

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