--- On Sat, 22/11/08, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had an old workstation with a 4 port SATA card (no raid) running > software raid and it handily stomps this 8 disk machine into the ground. Yeah, I think this machine will be going that route. > We had a bunch of 18xx series servers last company I was at > (we went > from unix / linux to Microsoft, so ordered some 400 > machines to > replace a dozen or so unix machines) I'm not surprised. We've just had some management "inserted" to make decisions like that for us. Honestly if I get asked one more time why we're not utilizing iSCSI or <insert buzzword here> more .... But that's another matter. > > I think as much as anything the busses on the dells are the > problem, > resulting in pretty poor throughput, especially true of the > old > serverworks chipset machines. Those things are pretty much > boat > anchors. Funny that, possibly explains some of the useless supermicro hardware I had a while back. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
