Re: RAID card recommendation - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: RAID card recommendation
Date
Msg-id 4B1D8870.9070205@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: RAID card recommendation  (Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>)
List pgsql-performance
Karl Denninger wrote:
> Most common SSDs will NOT come up on the 3ware cards at present.  Not
> sure why as of yet - I've tried several.
>
Right, and they're being rather weasly at
http://www.3ware.com/kb/Article.aspx?id=15470 talking about it too.
> Not had the time to screw with them on the ARECA cards yet.
>
I know the situation there is much better, like:
http://hothardware.com/News/24-Samsung-SSDs-Linked-Together-for-2GBSec/

Somebody at Newegg has said they got their Areca 1680 working with one
of the Intel X-25 drives, but wasn't impressed by the write
performance of the result.  Makes me wonder if the Areca card is messing
with the write cache of the drive.

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Greg Smith    2ndQuadrant   Baltimore, MD
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