Re: Advice on RAID card

I would think software raid would be quite inappropriate considering
postgres when it is working is taking a fair amount of CPU as would
software RAID. Does anyone know if this is really the case ?

Dave
On 25-Sep-05, at 6:17 AM, Michael Ben-Nes wrote:

> I would consider Software Raid
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> PFC wrote:
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>> Hello fellow Postgresql'ers.
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>> I've been stumbled on this RAID card which looks nice. It is a
>> PCI-X SATA Raid card with 6 channels, and does RAID 0,1,5,10,50.
>> It is a HP card with an Adaptec chip on it, and 64 MB cache.
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>> HP Part # : 372953-B21
>> Adaptec Part # : AAR-2610SA/64MB/HP
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>> There' even a picture :
>> http://megbytes.free.fr/Sata/DSC05970.JPG
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>> I know it isn't as good as a full SCSI system. I just want to
>> know if some of you have had experiences with these, and if this
>> cards belong to the "slower than no RAID" camp, like some DELL
>> card we often see mentioned here, or to the "decent performance
>> for the price" camp. It is to run on a Linux.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your time and information.
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