On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Glyn Astill <glynastill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Just to elaborate on the horror that is a Dell perc5e. We >> have one in >> a 1950 with battery backed cache (256 Meg I think). It has >> an 8 disk >> 500Gig SATA drive RAID-10 array and 4 1.6GHz cpus and 10 >> Gigs ram. > > Our perc5i controllers performed better in raid 5 that 10. Sounds like the comment you made when I was wasting my time with that perc3 fits all dell cards perfectly; "brain damaged" One of the beauties of the whole Dell RAID card naming scheme is that a Perc5i and a Perc5e can be made by different manufacturers and have completely different performance characteristics. The only common factor seems to be the high level of suck they managed to generate. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
