On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:05 PM, mark <dvlhntr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Just wondering, which LSI card ? >> Was this 32 drives in Raid 1+0 with a two drive raid 1 for logs or some >> other config? > > We were using teh LSI8888 but I'll be switching back to Areca when we > go back to HW RAID. The LSI8888 only performed well if we setup 15 > RAID-1 pairs in HW and use linux SW RAID 0 on top. RAID1+0 in the > LSI8888 was a pretty mediocre performer. Areca 1680 OTOH, beats it in > every test, with HW RAID10 only. Much simpler to admin. And it was RAID-10 w 4 drives for pg_xlog and RAID-10 with 24 drives for the data store. Both controllers, and pure SW when the LSI8888s cooked inside the poorly cooled Supermicro 1U we had it in. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
