| From: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Karl Denninger <karl(at)denninger(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RAID card recommendation |
| Date: | 2009-12-07 22:57:52 |
| Message-ID: | 4B1D8870.9070205@2ndquadrant.com |
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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
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com www.2ndQuadrant.com
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