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SATA hard drive question
What is the difference in performance between SATA 6 Gb/s and SATA 3 Gb/s inteface?
I'm looking at buying these drive for an entry level server to run a Postgress SQL database on.
The drives are Enterprise SATA from Western Digital
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=30
I'm looking at buying these drive for an entry level server to run a Postgress SQL database on.
The drives are Enterprise SATA from Western Digital
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=30
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I'm not sure what you mean by
If we move ahead it will be a RAID 10 with 4 of the above mentioned drives.
and you are not using an expander with multiple drives sharing the same physical path.
If we move ahead it will be a RAID 10 with 4 of the above mentioned drives.
Please understand that the faster hard drives run much hotter than standard hard drives and will probably need better than an entry level servers cooling system.