X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFB852965 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:16:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65369-02 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:16:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from morework.geizhals.at (home.geizhals.at [213.229.14.34]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E9F5407C for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:16:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (morework [127.0.0.1]) by morework.geizhals.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73851DEB90; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:16:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.16.42.166] (unknown [172.16.42.166]) by morework.geizhals.at (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:16:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <425FA27A.8010705@geizhals.at> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:16:10 +0200 From: Marinos Yannikos User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joshua D. Drake" Cc: "Mohan, Ross" , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Intel SRCS16 SATA raid? References: <425E9DE2.7030005@commandprompt.com> In-Reply-To: <425E9DE2.7030005@commandprompt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 at geizhals.at X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.05 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200504/334 X-Sequence-Number: 11731 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Well I have never even heard of it. 3ware is the defacto authority of > reasonable SATA RAID. no! 3ware was rather early in this business, but there are plenty of (IMHO, and some other people's opinion) better alternatives available. 3ware has good Linux drivers, but the performance of their current controllers isn't that good. Have a look at this: http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/1 especially the sequential writes with RAID-5 on this page: http://www.tweakers.net/reviews/557/19 We have been a long-time user of a 3ware 8506 controller (8 disks, RAID-5) and have purchased 2 Areca ARC-1120 now since we weren't satisfied with the performance and the 2TB per array limit... -mjy