From: | Glyn Astill <glynastill(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | Dan Birken <birken(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Which RAID Controllers to pick/avoid? |
Date: | 2011-02-03 09:54:31 |
Message-ID: | 589238.63246.qm@web26005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com |
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--- On Thu, 3/2/11, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> The 5405 and 5805 models do have a known problem where they overheat if
> you don't have enough cooling in the server box, with the 5805 seeming
> to be the bigger source of such issues. See the reviews at
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103099 for
> example. Scott Marlowe was griping recently about a similar issue in
> some of the LSI models, too. I suspect it's a problem impacting
> several of the larger RAID cards that use the big Intel IOP processors
> for their RAID computations, given that's the part with the heatsink on
> it.
> Quick summary: avoid the Adaptec 3405 and 4800. Rest are decent
> cards. Just make sure you monitor the temperatures in your case (and
> the card too if arcconf lets you, I haven't checked for that yet) if
> you end up with a 5405/5805.
I can attest to the 5805 and 5805Z cards running a little hot, the ones we're running tend to run in the high 60s and low 70s Celsius with fairly good airflow over them.
I've been running some 5805s for 3 years now, and 5805Zs for a year and they've been really good, stable, fast cards. I monitor everything on them (including temperature) with nagios and a simple script that uses the arcconf utility.
Glyn
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