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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:17:27 +0300
From: Michael Ben-Nes <miki@canaan.co.il>
Subject: Re: Advice on RAID card
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I would consider Software Raid


PFC wrote:

>
>     Hello fellow Postgresql'ers.
>
>     I've been stumbled on this RAID card which looks nice. It is a 
> PCI-X SATA  Raid card with 6 channels, and does RAID  0,1,5,10,50.
>     It is a HP card with an Adaptec chip on it, and 64 MB cache.
>
>     HP Part # : 372953-B21
>     Adaptec Part # : AAR-2610SA/64MB/HP
>
>     There' even a picture :
>     http://megbytes.free.fr/Sata/DSC05970.JPG
>
>     I know it isn't as good as a full SCSI system. I just want to know 
> if  some of you have had experiences with these, and if this cards 
> belong to  the "slower than no RAID" camp, like some DELL card we 
> often see mentioned  here, or to the "decent performance for the 
> price" camp. It is to run on a  Linux.
>
>     Thanks in advance for your time and information.
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