-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/06 23:02, 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. Anyone else have experience with the MSA20 or the SmartArray 6404? >> Anyone have Experience with this h/w+s/w combo? It will be used as >> a "history server", so sub-second transaction times are not required. - -- 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 v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFOGbMS9HxQb37XmcRAn6CAKDjs+0sOT72lWcFgAJ9wnwdv1EqrACaA3zD 9b8CQL5ckn4BtrJJvUdc2iw= =tswq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
