Re: Hardware related question: 3ware 9500S

From: Francisco Reyes <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Janning Vygen <vygen(at)gmx(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hardware related question: 3ware 9500S
Date: 2006-04-15 14:36:25
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Merlin Moncure writes:

> escalade is a fairly full featured raid controller for the price.
> consider it the ford taurus of raid controllers, it's functional and
> practical but not sexy. Their S line is not native sata but operates
> over a pata->sata bridge. Stay away from raid 5.

Do you know if their raid 5 is better in the new 9550SX?

Or is the "Stay away from raid 5" more of a general comment that this type
of raid is not good for DBs?

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