--- On Fri, 25/12/09, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It does kind of knock the stuffing out of the argument that > buying > from the big vendors ensures good hardware > experiences. I've had > similar problems from all the big vendors in the > past. I can't > imagine getting treated that way by my current > supplied. It's one > thing for some obscure bug in a particular ubuntu kernel to > interact > poorly with a piece of equipment, but when a hardware RAID > controller > arrives in a basically broken state, that's > inexcusable. It's really > not too much to expect working hardware on arrival. Last month I found myself taking a powerdrill to our new dell boxes in order to route cables to replacement raid cards. Having to do that made me feel really unprofessional and a total cowboy, but it was either that or shitty performance. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
