From: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
To: Michael Ben-Nes <miki@epoch.co.il>
To: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Integrated perc 5/i
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:53:00 -0700
Message-ID: <C2E9DD0C.3BCF1%llonergan@greenplum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3be18fa0708160126i62a857d6ubd993546bc3c197b@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Michael,
There is a problem with some Dell ³perc 5² RAID cards, specifically we¹ve
had this problem with the 2950 as of 6 months ago they do not support
RAID10. They have a setting that sounds like RAID10, but it actually
implements spanning of mirrors. This means that you will not get more than
one disk worth of performance whether you are performing random seeks
(within a one disk sized area) or sequential transfers.
I recommend you read the section in the Dell configuration guide very
carefully and look for supplemental sources of technical information about
it. We found the issue clearly explained in a Dell technical memo that I
don¹t have in front of me we were shocked to find this out.
As suggested the RAID5 numbers from these controllers are very strong.
- Luke
On 8/16/07 1:26 AM, "Michael Ben-Nes" <miki@epoch.co.il> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I wanted to know if the integrated perc 5/i which come with Dell 2950 will
> yield maximum performance from RAID 10 ( 15K SAS ).
> Or should I ask for different card ?
>
> I read an old post that shows that RAID 10 does not work eficently under perc
> 5/i
> http://groups.google.com/group/pgsql.performance/browse_thread/thread/b85926fe
> 6de1f6c2/38837995887b6033?lnk=st&q=perc+5%2Fi+performance&rnum=6&hl=en#3883799
> 5887b6033
> <http://groups.google.com/group/pgsql.performance/browse_thread/thread/b85926f
> e6de1f6c2/38837995887b6033?lnk=st&q=perc+5%2Fi+performance&rnum=6&
> hl=en#38837995887b6033>
>
> Does any one have any experience with RAID 10 & perc 5/i ?
>
> Thanks,
> Miki
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