On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Chris Barnes<compuguruchrisbar...@hotmail.com> wrote: > We are curious about using SAN with fiber channel hba and if anyone else > uses this technology. > > We would also like to know if people have preference to the level of raid > with/out striping.
I used SurfRAID Triton external RAID units connected to Sun X4100 boxes via LSI Fibre Channel cards. I run them as RAID6 plus hot spare with a total of 16 drives. This is extremely fast and provides for up to 2 disk failure. The key is to have 1 or 2 gigs of cache on the RAID units. I also crank up the RAM on the servers to at least 20Gb. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
