Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB821633AF5 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:59:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80842-01 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:59:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from madmax.bizintegrators.com (madmax.bizintegrators.com [64.94.184.54]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E8E56339CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:59:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from shelca (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) (authenticated bits=0) by madmax.bizintegrators.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o2VGxMKs023787 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:59:24 -0400 (EDT) References: <4BB1FAAF.7050406@wp.pl> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: Ireneusz Pluta Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: 3ware vs. MegaRAID Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:59:52 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loftmail-Check: No X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 64.94.184.88 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.001 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201003/409 X-Sequence-Number: 38234 Ireneusz Pluta writes: > I am waiting for an ordered machine dedicated to PostgresSQL. It was > expected to have 3ware 9650SE 16 port controller. However, the vendor > wants to replace this controller with MegaRAID SAS 84016E, because, as I have had better luck getting 3ware management tools to work on both FreeBSD and Linux than the Megaraid cards. I also like the 3ware cards can be configured to send out an email in case of problems once you have the monitoring program running.