From: Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Perc 3 DC
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:00:11 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <686265.12234.qm@web23601.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcc563d10811221027t6115bc5cq1d705d3c6c89c411@mail.gmail.com>
--- On Sat, 22/11/08, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had an old workstation with a 4 port SATA card (no raid) running
> software raid and it handily stomps this 8 disk machine into the ground.
Yeah, I think this machine will be going that route.
> We had a bunch of 18xx series servers last company I was at
> (we went
> from unix / linux to Microsoft, so ordered some 400
> machines to
> replace a dozen or so unix machines)
I'm not surprised. We've just had some management "inserted" to make decisions like that for us. Honestly if I get asked one more time why we're not utilizing iSCSI or <insert buzzword here> more .... But that's another matter.
>
> I think as much as anything the busses on the dells are the
> problem,
> resulting in pretty poor throughput, especially true of the
> old
> serverworks chipset machines. Those things are pretty much
> boat
> anchors.
Funny that, possibly explains some of the useless supermicro hardware I had a while back.
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