Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?)

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: Anjan Dave <adave(at)vantage(dot)com>, William Yu <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Opteron vs Xeon (Was: What to do with 6 disks?)
Date: 2005-04-20 18:01:09
Message-ID: 1114020069.66326.20.camel@home
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> The HPs are at root pretty good machines -- and take 6 drives, so I expect
> you're mixed up there. However, they use HP's proprietary RAID controller
> which is seriously defective. So you need to factor replacing the RAID
> controller into the cost.

Do you have any additional materials on what is defective with their
raid controllers?
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