Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6B31337B5D for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:04:46 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43136-07 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 15:04:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:06:37.913956 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C23C1337B49 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:04:38 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Feb 2011 14:57:58 -0000 Received: from office.icomedias.com (EHLO [10.192.1.141]) [109.73.147.5] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 03 Feb 2011 15:57:58 +0100 X-Authenticated: #5984785 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Ms4xVTU1MJ5NnQ6y9nLiZg2LPicoZA9mVWk3Hla 0mUgXQoWmF/aEg Message-ID: <4D4AC275.7090105@gmx.at> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:57:57 +0100 From: Mario Weilguni User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Which RAID Controllers to pick/avoid? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.336 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT=1.553, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201102/74 X-Sequence-Number: 42212 Am 03.02.2011 00:15, schrieb Dan Birken: > I'm setting up a dedicated linux postgres box with 2x300GB 15k SAS > drive in a RAID 1, though if future load dictates we would like to be > able to upgrade to RAID 10. The hosting provider offers the following > options for a RAID controller (all are the same price): Adaptec at least has good tools for managing the controller, and performance in our RAID-1 (DB) and RAID-5 setups (Files) is very good. I don't think you can do wrong with the Adaptec controllers. Can't say much regarding LSI, but avoid cheap HP controllers.