From: "Joel Fradkin" <jfradkin@wazagua.com>
To: "'Scott Marlowe'" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>,
	"'Harsh Azad'" <harsh.azad@gmail.com>
Cc: <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: SAN vs Internal Disks
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:14:04 -0400
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I am not sure I agree with that evaluation.
I only have 2 dell database servers and they have been 100% reliable.
Maybe he is referring to support which does tend be up to who you get.
When I asked about performance on my new server they were very helpful =
but I
did have a bad time on my NAS device (but had the really cheap support =
plan
on it). They did help me get it fixed but I had to RMA all the drives on =
the
NAS as they were all bad and it was no fun installing the os as it had =
no
floppy. I got the better support for both the data base servers which =
are
using jbod from dell for the disk array. The quad proc opteron with duel
cores and 16gig of memory has been extremely fast (like 70%) over my =
older 4
proc 32 bit single core machine with 8 gig. But both are running =
postgres
and perform needed functionality. I would like to have redundant backups =
of
these as they are mission critical, but all in good time.

I'd recommend against Dell unless you're at a company that orders
computers by the hundred lot.  My experience with Dell has been that
unless you are a big customer you're just another number (a small one
at that) on a spreadsheet.

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