From: Erik Myllymaki <erik.myllymaki@aviawest.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
Cc: Tom Arthurs <tarthurs@jobflash.com>
Cc: Mark Lewis <mark.lewis@mir3.com>
Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
Cc: Pgsql performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: hardare config question
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 12:40:22 -0700
Message-ID: <44566426.2040707@aviawest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1146509515.22037.26.camel@state.g2switchworks.com>
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<1146246441.15712.41.camel@archimedes>
<44564C3F.2040609@aviawest.com>
<445651F1.9070307@jobflash.com>
<1146509515.22037.26.camel@state.g2switchworks.com>
guess who just bought a 3ware BBU on ebay...
Thanks for all the posts, consider me educated!
(on the importance of BBU on RAID controllers, anyway)
:)
Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:22, Tom Arthurs wrote:
>> UPS does not protect against the tech behind the rack unplugging the
>> power cable, or an accidental power cycle from exercising the wrong
>> switch. :) Both are probably more common causes of failure than a total
>> power outage.
>>
>> Erik Myllymaki wrote:
>>> I have been in discussion with 3ware support and after adjusting some
>>> settings, the 3ware card in RAID 1 gets better performance than the
>>> single drive. I guess this had everything to do with the write (and
>>> maybe read?) cache.
>>>
>>> Of course now i am in a dangerous situation - using volatile write
>>> cache without a BBU.
>>>
>>> If I were to use a UPS to ensure a soft shutdown in the event of power
>>> loss, am I somewhat as safe as if I were to purchase a BBU for this
>>> RAID card?
>
> Nor does it prevent an electrician from dropping a tiny piece of wire
> into a power conditioner, causing a feedback that blows the other two
> power conditioners, all three industrial UPSes, and the switch that
> allows the Diesal generator to take over.
>
> When that happened to me, I had the only database server in the company
> to come back up 100% in tact. You can guess by now I also had the only
> database server with battery backed cache...
>
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