| From: | PFC <lists(at)boutiquenumerique(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Dave Cramer" <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, "Michael Ben-Nes" <miki(at)canaan(dot)co(dot)il>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Advice on RAID card |
| Date: | 2005-09-25 16:53:57 |
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> There is a huge advantage to software raid on all kinds of levels. If
> you have the CPU then I suggest
> it. However you will never get the performance out of software raid on
> the high level (think 1 gig of cache)
> that you would on a software raid setup.
>
> It is a bit of a tradeoff but for most installations software raid is
> more than adequate.
Which makes me think that I will use Software Raid 5 and convert the
price of the card into RAM.
This should be nice for a budget server.
Gonna investigate now if Linux software RAID5 is rugged enough. Can
always buy the a card later if not.
Thanks all for the advice, you were really helpful.
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