Re: Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID
Date
Msg-id 200408251422.08366.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
Responses Re: Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID  (Ralf Schramm <ralf.schramm@bahn.de>)
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Robert,

> Just curious if folks have ever used this for a postgresql server and if
> they used it with OSX/BSD/Linux. Even if you haven't used it, if you
> know of something comparable I'd be interested.  TIA

Last I checked Apple was still shipping the XServes with SATA drives and a
PROMISE controller, both very consumer-grade (and not server-grade) hardware.
I can't recommend the XServe as a database platform.  SCSI still makes a
difference for databases, more because of the controllers than anything else.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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