Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541172E004B for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:40:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 48080-01-7 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:39:53 -0400 (AST) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DFD2E007A for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:40:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([71.178.24.191]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JWJ00ID8NIBGJ90@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:39:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEE66E855; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:35:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (osgiliath.home.mathom.us [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id O3N4i03QsBY8; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:35:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A59516EC05; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:35:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:35:39 -0500 From: Michael Stone Subject: Re: Anyone using a SAN? In-reply-to: <1203515562.6611.113.camel@chaos> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_Bergstr=F6m?= Cc: pgsql-performance Mail-followup-to: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_Bergstr=F6m?= , pgsql-performance Message-id: <20080220153537.GP3001@mathom.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mathom.us X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 53 FF 38 00 E7 DD 0A 9C 84 52 84 C5 EE DF 7C 88 References: <4544e0330802130856t10582294lfa93bc91e234ed01@mail.gmail.com> <20080213210655.GL9596@mail.nordicbet.com> <47B41414.9030004@enterprisedb.com> <4544e0330802181344q2d98560du6bd4e481a9c9439f@mail.gmail.com> <1203515562.6611.113.camel@chaos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200802/248 X-Sequence-Number: 28790 On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:52:42PM +0100, C. Bergström wrote: >Can be, but may I point to a recent posting on Beowulf ml [1] and the >article it references [2] Showing that the per node price of SDR IB has >come down far enough to in some cases compete with GigE. ymmv, but I'm >in the planning phase for a massive storage system and it's something >we're looking into. Just thought I'd share For HPC, maybe. For other sectors, it's hard to compete with the free GBE that comes with the machine, and that low price doesn't reflect the cost of extending an oddball network infrastructure outside of a cluster. Mike Stone