From: | Robert Schnabel <schnabelr(at)missouri(dot)edu> |
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To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: RAID Controllers |
Date: | 2011-08-23 11:14:52 |
Message-ID: | 4E538BAC.4050904@missouri.edu |
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On 8/22/2011 9:42 PM, David Boreham wrote:
> I'm buying a bunch of new machines (all will run an application that heavily
> writes to PG). These machines will have 2 spindle groups in a RAID-1 config.
> Drives will be either 15K SAS, or 10K SATA (I haven't decided if it is
> better
> to buy the faster drives, or drives that are identical to the ones we are
> already running in our production servers, thus achieving commonality in
> spares across all machines).
>
> Controller choice looks to be between Adaptec 6405, with the
> supercapacitor unit;
> or LSI 9260-4i with its BBU. Price is roughly the same.
>
> Would be grateful for any thoughts on this choice.
I'm by no means an expert but it seems to me if you're going to choose
between two 6 GB/s cards you may as well put SAS2 drives in. I have two
Adaptec 6445 cards in one of my boxes and several other Adaptec series 5
controllers in others. They suit my needs and I haven't had any
problems with them. I think it has been mentioned previously but they
do tend to run hot so plenty of airflow would be good.
Bob
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