Re: Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID

From: Ralf Schramm <ralf(dot)schramm(at)bahn(dot)de>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID
Date: 2004-08-25 23:03:52
Message-ID: 08139423-F6EB-11D8-ACDB-000393DB553C@bahn.de
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the XServe/XRaid comes with FibreChannel

Here some infos:
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/architecture.html
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/fibre_channel.html
http://www.apple.com/xserve/architecture.html

Ralf Schramm

Am 25.08.2004 um 23:22 schrieb Josh Berkus:

> Robert,
>
>> Just curious if folks have ever used this for a postgresql server and
>> if
>> they used it with OSX/BSD/Linux. Even if you haven't used it, if you
>> know of something comparable I'd be interested. TIA
>
> Last I checked Apple was still shipping the XServes with SATA drives
> and a
> PROMISE controller, both very consumer-grade (and not server-grade)
> hardware.
> I can't recommend the XServe as a database platform. SCSI still makes
> a
> difference for databases, more because of the controllers than
> anything else.
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco

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