| From: | Jeff <threshar(at)torgo(dot)978(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Jeffrey Baker" <jwbaker(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Jeff <threshar(at)threshar(dot)is-a-geek(dot)com>, "Pgsql performance" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 3ware vs Areca |
| Date: | 2008-07-11 19:52:02 |
| Message-ID: | 58C01BCC-77BD-4840-9B4D-74E4838DA88A@torgo.978.org |
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On Jul 11, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Jeffrey Baker wrote:
>
> From my experience, the Areca controllers are difficult to operate.
> Their firmware is, frankly, garbage. In more than one instance we
> have had the card panic when a disk fails, which is obviously counter
> to the entire purpose of a RAID. We finally removed the Areca
> controllers from our database server and replaced them with HP P800s.
>
My main db has a p600 plugged into an msa70 which works well - does
the HP junk work in non-hp boxes?
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Jeff Trout <jeff(at)jefftrout(dot)com>
http://www.stuarthamm.net/
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