Re: SAN/NAS options

From: Charles Sprickman <spork(at)bway(dot)net>
To: Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SAN/NAS options
Date: 2006-01-15 03:23:05
Message-ID: Pine.OSX.4.61.0601142216190.312@gee5.local
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On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Luke Lonergan wrote:

> Charles,
>
> On 1/14/06 6:37 PM, "Charles Sprickman" <spork(at)bway(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> I'm vaguely considering pairing these two devices:
>>
>> http://www.areca.us/products/html/products.htm
>>
>> That's an Areca 16 channel SATA II (I haven't even read up on what's new
>> in SATA II) RAID controller with an optional U320 SCSI daughter card to
>> connect to the host(s).
>
> I'm confused - SATA with a SCSI daughter card? Where does the SCSI go?

Bad ASCII diagram follows (D=disk, C=controller H=host):

SATA ____
D -------| | SCSI ________
D -------| C |--------| H |
D -------| | |________|
D -------|____|

(etc. up
to 16
drives)

The drives and the controller go in the Chenbro case. U320 SCSI from the
RAID controller in the Chenbro case to the 1U server.

C

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