| From: | Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Richard Neill <rn214(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam(at)opengroupware(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SATA drives performance |
| Date: | 2009-12-27 15:36:00 |
| Message-ID: | 984501.82567.qm@web23608.mail.ird.yahoo.com |
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--- On Fri, 25/12/09, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> It does kind of knock the stuffing out of the argument that
> buying
> from the big vendors ensures good hardware
> experiences. I've had
> similar problems from all the big vendors in the
> past. I can't
> imagine getting treated that way by my current
> supplied. It's one
> thing for some obscure bug in a particular ubuntu kernel to
> interact
> poorly with a piece of equipment, but when a hardware RAID
> controller
> arrives in a basically broken state, that's
> inexcusable. It's really
> not too much to expect working hardware on arrival.
Last month I found myself taking a powerdrill to our new dell boxes in order to route cables to replacement raid cards. Having to do that made me feel really unprofessional and a total cowboy, but it was either that or shitty performance.
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