Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842D99FB7C9 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:37:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28328-04 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:37:33 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from olive.qinip.net (olive.qinip.net [62.100.30.40]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E839FB508 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:37:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [10.0.0.21] (h8441139206.dsl.speedlinq.nl [84.41.139.206]) by olive.qinip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FDB182E0; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:37:30 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <4613FEB4.9040303@tweakers.net> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:38:28 +0200 From: Arjen van der Meijden User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Windows/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "jason@ohloh.net" CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA References: <9C0858F5-0A48-4AF9-80FF-E4BA14F0F965@ohloh.net> <4613F7DC.40404@tweakers.net> <74022AFF-0CB6-421C-B2D7-2A88A93C9604@ohloh.net> In-Reply-To: <74022AFF-0CB6-421C-B2D7-2A88A93C9604@ohloh.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/88 X-Sequence-Number: 23965 On 4-4-2007 21:17 jason@ohloh.net wrote: > fwiw, I've had horrible experiences with areca drivers on linux. I've > found them to be unreliable when used with dual AMD64 processors 4+ GB > of ram. I've tried kernels 2.16 up to 2.19... intermittent yet > inevitable ext3 corruptions. 3ware cards, on the other hand, have been > rock solid. That's the first time I hear such a thing. We have two systems (both are previous generation 64bit Xeon systems with 6 and 8GB memory) which run perfectly stable with uptimes with a ARC-1130 and 8 WD-raptor disks. Best regards, Arjen