-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 19:55, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Being an HP/Compaq shop, I'm looking at an Opteron-and-SATA-based >> DL145 G2 and an MSA20 SATA enclosure with a U320 interface to use >> with RHES4 and PostgreSQL. > > I recently speced this exact hardware for a customer. When the customer called > HP to order, HP told them that it is not appropriate for a database. They > cited shorter life of the SATA drives and overall performance. > > Is it true? I don't know. I have used SATA enclosures for databases for > sometime and have been quite happy with them. > > You may also to look at the ml30 which is SCSI. Thanks. SCSI, though, would push the costs excessively high. We have a Hitachi 9500 (really a DF600F) SAN, with SATA disks in it, as well as an older SCSI SAN, and the DF600F works well. We've had it for at least 2 years (time loses all meaning when you're a corporate drone...), and TTBOMK, it doesn't suffer abnormal disk deaths. What SCSI hba did you spec? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEreHOS9HxQb37XmcRAvhzAKDDuegj4JnqdS9e5z25yHES5oe8BgCeNfs0 JiucGk7JTK0kYKus1q6YPZg= =vVoE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
