From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>
Cc: Bucky Jordan <bjordan@lumeta.com>
Cc: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: availability of SATA vendors
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:00:16 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611220834400.4382@discord.home.frostconsultingllc.com>
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On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 08:36 -0800, Jeff Frost wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Bucky Jordan wrote:
>
> > Dells (at least the 1950 and 2950) come with the Perc5, which is
> > basically just the LSI MegaRAID. The units I have come with a 256MB BBU,
> > I'm not sure if it's upgradeable, but it looks like a standard DIMM in
> > there...
> >
> > I posted some dd and bonnie++ benchmarks of a 6-disk setup a while back
> > on a 2950, so you might search the archive for those numbers if you're
> > interested- you should be able to get the same or better from a
> > similarly equipped LSI setup. I don't recall if I posted pgbench
> > numbers, but I can if that's of interest.
>
> I could only find the 6 disk RAID5 numbers in the archives that were run with
> bonnie++1.03. Have you run the RAID10 tests since? Did you settle on 6 disk
> RAID5 or 2xRAID1 + 4XRAID10?
Why not 6 drive raid 10? IIRC you need 4 to start RAID 10 but only pairs
after that.
Joshua D. Drake
>
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