Re: SCSI disk: still the way to go?

SAS and SATA will give you the best throughput for your array total. U320
is limited to 320MB/channel.

Alex

On 5/30/06, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:28, Riccardo Inverni wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I have to update a Linux box with PostgreSQL on it, essentially for
> > data warehousing purposes. I had set it up about 3 years ago and at
> > that time the best solution I had been recommended was to use SCSI
> > disks with hardware RAID controllers.
> >
> > Is this still the way to go or things have recently changed? Any
> > other suggestion/advice? What about SAN?
>
> Actually, modern SATA server drives are now considered competitive with
> the proper RAID controller.
>
> Nowadays most people seem to recommend the Areca controllers. I haven't
> used them myself, but would be happy to test them some day.
>
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