Re: hardware for a server

Greg Smith wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Greg Smith wrote:
> >
> >> Given what you've said about your budget here, I suspect that you're
> >> heading toward either 3ware or LSI and all SATA drives. I wouldn't
> >> expect that big of a performance difference between the two with only 8
> >> drives on there. If you had 24, the 3ware controller would likely turn
> >> into the bottleneck, and if this was an all SAS system the LSI one would
> >> also be the only sensible choice. (Make sure you get the right battery
> >> included with whatever controller you pick)
> >>
> >
> > Is this documented somewhere, like on our wiki? It seems we have a
> > clear consensus on this and we should document this.
> >
>
> The documentation we do have on the wiki in this area is out of date:
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SCSI_vs._IDE/SATA_Disks
>
> I just finished testing a bunch of LSI card recently enough that I
> haven't gotten to fixing the outdated info on there yet about that company.

I am thinking we should point to that wiki from our official docs so
people find that information easily.

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