From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Bucky Jordan <bjordan@lumeta.com>
Cc: Ben Suffolk <ben@vanilla.net>
Cc: Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: New hardware thoughts
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:02:06 -0700
Message-ID: <453C30AE.10606@commandprompt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78ED28FACE63744386D68D8A9D1CF5D4209D5A@MAIL.corp.lumeta.com>
References: <78ED28FACE63744386D68D8A9D1CF5D4209D5A@MAIL.corp.lumeta.com>
>> If I get the offshelf LSI Megaraid withe the same configuration? You
>> don't want to know... it will just make you want to cry at the fact
> that
>> you bought a Dell.
>
> I agree there's better platforms out there than Dell, but the above is
> simply not true for the 2950. Raid 5, dd, on 6 disks, I get about
> 260Mb/s sustained writes. Granted, this should be faster, but... it's a
> far cry from 8 or 50MB/s. I posted some numbers here a while back on the
> 2950, so you might want to dig those out of the archives.
Well these are 3 year old machines, they could have improved a bit but
it is quite true for the version of the Dells I have. I can duplicate it
on both machines.
Frankly Dell has a *long* way to go to prove to me that they are a
quality vendor for Server hardware.
Joshua D. Drake
>
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