On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 08:36 -0800, Jeff Frost wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Bucky Jordan wrote: > > > Dells (at least the 1950 and 2950) come with the Perc5, which is > > basically just the LSI MegaRAID. The units I have come with a 256MB BBU, > > I'm not sure if it's upgradeable, but it looks like a standard DIMM in > > there... > > > > I posted some dd and bonnie++ benchmarks of a 6-disk setup a while back > > on a 2950, so you might search the archive for those numbers if you're > > interested- you should be able to get the same or better from a > > similarly equipped LSI setup. I don't recall if I posted pgbench > > numbers, but I can if that's of interest. > > I could only find the 6 disk RAID5 numbers in the archives that were run with > bonnie++1.03. Have you run the RAID10 tests since? Did you settle on 6 disk > RAID5 or 2xRAID1 + 4XRAID10? Why not 6 drive raid 10? IIRC you need 4 to start RAID 10 but only pairs after that. Joshua D. Drake > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate