You should at least have ECC RAM in the Solaris box, but then again, you
should have ECC RAM in any "server" to avoid in memory corruption.
If the disk "Array" blew it's toys, then it sounds like you may have
yourself a RAID controller, you could easily buy a few new hard disks,
and get yourself back up and running. RAID 5 needs a minimum of three
disks, RAID 1 Needs two. Failing the RAID controller, the solaris will
have a SCSI subsystem .... mmmmm, 15,000rpm, 16MB Cache disks....
Hadley.
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 03:34, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 23 April 2003 20:33, Ian Harding wrote:
> > > I am running my PostgreSQL database on a Dell PowerEdge 2400. What,
> > > advantages/disadvantages are there to learning Solaris and migrating my
> > > stuff over to the coffee table machine? Does the Dell fall under the
> > > heading of "cheap" (crummy) hardware that Tom alluded to causing corruption
> > > issues?
> >
> > Dell server might be good enough for most tasks but if the sun machine is 64
> > bit, then you have a significant advantage there. Besides they should be bit
> > more robust(Sorry, this is absolute wild shot. Have no idea about specs of
> > any of these two machines.)
> >
> > Just one real advice, from what I have heard on lists. If the sun machine
> > supports, install linux rather than solaris. Apparently linux on sparc is far
> > faster than solaris, at least at lower to middle end. Besides postgresql and
> > solaris have had performance issues in past.
>
> Even better, throw in an extra drive and configure it to dual boot. Then
> you can test the two against each other be sure which is faster for what
> you're doing.
>
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