On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 07:30, Dan Birken <birken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you everybody for the detailed answers, the help is well appreciated. > A couple of follow-up questions: > - Is the supercap + flash memory considered superior to the BBU in practice? I think it's considered about equivalent. The advantages of the flash one are no battery maintenance (=no downtime every <n> years to replace it) and no "timeout" if you loose power (but the battery backed ones are usually good for 48 hours or so, and if you don't have a server up by then...) > Is that type of system well tested? Yes. > - Is the linux support of the LSI and Adaptec cards comparable? Can't comment on that one, sorry. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance