Re: New hardware thoughts

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: "Pgsql-Performance ((((E-mail))))" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New hardware thoughts
Date: 2006-10-23 21:02:56
Message-ID: 1423A912-A830-412D-B1DC-5E8B51DF78F0@khera.org
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On Oct 20, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:

> My advice is to find another supplier. check the archives for Dell.

Not necessarily bad to go with Dell. There are *some* of their
controllers that are wicked fast in some configurations. However,
finding which ones are fast is very tricky unless you buy + return
the box you want to test :-)

>
> Basically you have no idea what the Perc controller is since it is
> whatever Dell decides to ship that day.

FUD!!!

They don't randomly change the controllers under the same name. If
you order a PERC4e/Si controller you will get the same controller
every time. This particular controller (found in their PE1850) is
incredibly fast, sustaining over 80Mb/sec writes to a mirror. I
measured that during a DB mirror using slony.

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