On 8/10/07, Vivek Khera <vivek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Joe Uhl wrote: > > > PowerEdge 1950 paired with a PowerVault MD1000 > > 2 x Quad Core Xeon E5310 > > 16 GB 667MHz RAM (4 x 4GB leaving room to expand if we need to) > > PERC 5/E Raid Adapter > > 2 x 146 GB SAS in Raid 1 for OS + logs. > > A bunch of disks in the MD1000 configured in Raid 10 for Postgres > > data. > > I'd avoid Dell disk systems if at all possible. I know, I've been > through the pain. You really want someone else providing your RAID > card and disk array, especially if the 5/E card is based on the > Adaptec devices. I'm not so sure I agree. They are using LSI firmware now (and so is everyone else). The servers are well built (highly subjective, I admit) and configurable. I have had some bad experiences with IBM gear (adaptec controller though), and white box parts 3ware, etc. I can tell you that dell got us the storage and the server in record time do agree on adaptec however merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
