Greg Smith wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Greg Smith wrote:
> >
> >> Given what you've said about your budget here, I suspect that you're
> >> heading toward either 3ware or LSI and all SATA drives. I wouldn't
> >> expect that big of a performance difference between the two with only 8
>
A B wrote:
Don't put SAS drives on a 3ware controller. They say that works now, but
they haven't really gotten it right yet--their controllers are still only
good with SATA drives.
How bad will it be with SAS drives? Is there so little performance
gain witn 3ware+SAS?
The concern isn
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Greg Smith wrote:
Given what you've said about your budget here, I suspect that you're
heading toward either 3ware or LSI and all SATA drives. I wouldn't
expect that big of a performance difference between the two with only 8
drives on there. If you had 24, the 3ware
John R Pierce wrote:
Vick Khera wrote:
Interesting... same advice goes for Adaptec + FreeBSD. I guess
Adaptec + !Windows == bad?
i've never liked adaptec, windows or not.
Yeah, I was trying to be as nice as possible since I don't run Windows
anymore, and for all I know their cards are f
Vick Khera wrote:
Interesting... same advice goes for Adaptec + FreeBSD. I guess
Adaptec + !Windows == bad?
i've never liked adaptec, windows or not. bunches of their too-popular
SCSI cards even way back in the old days of 10-20MB/sec SCSI had sketchy
electrical specs on the SCSI bus an
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Don't put an Adaptec card into a Linux system. They don't take that OS
> nearly as seriously as your other choices here.
>
Interesting... same advice goes for Adaptec + FreeBSD. I guess
Adaptec + !Windows == bad?
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Greg Smith wrote:
> Given what you've said about your budget here, I suspect that you're
> heading toward either 3ware or LSI and all SATA drives. I wouldn't
> expect that big of a performance difference between the two with only 8
> drives on there. If you had 24, the 3ware controller would l
> Don't put SAS drives on a 3ware controller. They say that works now, but
> they haven't really gotten it right yet--their controllers are still only
> good with SATA drives.
How bad will it be with SAS drives? Is there so little performance
gain witn 3ware+SAS?
Scott Marlowe stated in earlier
A B wrote:
3Ware SAS 9690SA-8i 512 MB BBU
Adaptec SAS Raid 5805 256 MB BBU
LSI MegaRaid SAS 8708 128 MB BBU
When it comes to choosing the acctual discs I guess this would be
appropriate to use:
"other data": Barracda ES.2 1000 GB (SATA) to get a a good GB/$ ratio.
OS/xlog : Barracuda ES.2 500
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:34 AM, A B wrote:
> 3Ware SAS 9690SA-8i 512 MB BBU
> Adaptec SAS Raid 5805 256 MB BBU
> LSI MegaRaid SAS 8708 128 MB BBU
>
When faced with the choice of Adaptec vs. anything else, I choose
anything else. When faced with the choice of LSI vs anything else, I
look really
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:34 AM, A B wrote:
> Hello.
>
> It's time to get new hardware for a server that will run both
> PostgreSQL and Apache.
> The workload will be similar to that of your standard "PHP forum"
> (most selects and logging of stuff that has been read)
>
> The modell I'm looking a
Hello.
It's time to get new hardware for a server that will run both
PostgreSQL and Apache.
The workload will be similar to that of your standard "PHP forum"
(most selects and logging of stuff that has been read)
The modell I'm looking at right now is
2x Xeon E5520 2,26 GHz 8 MB (8 cores in tot
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