Received: from localhost (uranus.hub.org [200.46.204.60]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2519F9B3F for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:20:07 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.60]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 57345-06 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:20:03 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from olive.qinip.net (olive.qinip.net [62.100.30.40]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B7889F9EC9 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:20:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (h8441139206.dsl.speedlinq.nl [84.41.139.206]) by olive.qinip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F91618318; Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:19:55 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <455E0B5F.8040806@tweakers.net> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:19:59 +0100 From: Arjen van der Meijden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Frost CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: availability of SATA vendors References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0649-0, 15-11-2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200611/140 X-Sequence-Number: 21910 On 17-11-2006 18:45 Jeff Frost wrote: > I see many of you folks singing the praises of the Areca and 3ware SATA > controllers, but I've been trying to price some systems and am having > trouble finding a vendor who ships these controllers with their > systems. Are you rolling your own white boxes or am I just looking in > the wrong places? In Holland it are indeed the smaller companies who supply such cards. But luckily there is a very simple solution, all those big suppliers do supply SAS-controllers. And as you may know, SATA disks can be used without any problem on a SAS controller. Of course they are less advanced and normally slower than a SAS disk. So you can have a nice SAS raid card and insert SATA disks in it. And than you can shop at any major server vendor I know off. Good luck, Arjen