X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1CD49FA0EC for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:18:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03861-08 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:17:57 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from exchange.g2switchworks.com (mail.g2switchworks.com [63.87.162.25]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D699F94F3 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 15:17:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 10.10.1.37 ([10.10.1.37]) by exchange.g2switchworks.com ([10.10.1.2]) with Microsoft Exchange Server HTTP-DAV ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 18:17:55 +0000 Received: from state.g2switchworks.com by mail.g2switchworks.com; 06 Jul 2006 13:17:55 -0500 Subject: Re: suggested RAID controller for FreeBSD 6.1 + From: Scott Marlowe To: Kenji Morishige Cc: Mark Kirkwood , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <20060706181019.GA15855@juniper.net> References: <20060705234617.GB2367@juniper.net> <44AC5EB9.8060707@paradise.net.nz> <20060706181019.GA15855@juniper.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1152209875.13851.159.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:17:55 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200607/52 X-Sequence-Number: 19912 On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 13:10, Kenji Morishige wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion Mark, though the server chassis I am trying to > utilize already has 4 10,000 RPM SCSI drives with SCA interfaces. Ideally I > would like to use the existing drives and chassis and find another SCSI RAID > controller. It looks like 3Ware only makes ATA controllers. Take a look at LSI. They make solid and reliable SCSI RAID controllers. be sure and get the BBU cache.