Re: Hardware related question: 3ware 9500S - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alex Turner
Subject Re: Hardware related question: 3ware 9500S
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Msg-id 33c6269f0604151938q5ec97683wa24d620fe55e02e2@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Hardware related question: 3ware 9500S  ("Guy Rouillier" <guyr@masergy.com>)
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Ahhhh... good point.

Why oh why does tyan have two boards with the same prefix ;)!!!

Alex

On 4/15/06, Guy Rouillier < guyr@masergy.com> wrote:
Alex Turner wrote:
> Raid 5 on the 9550SX is supposed to be significantly better than the
> 9500 series.
>
> I would be carefull of benchmarks listed out there.  For instance,
> whilst looking for supporting material, I came cross this gem:
>
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/print_content.asp?id=9550sx4lp&cookie%5Ftest=
1
>
> They claim the they used a Tyan Thunder K8WE motherboard, and
> installed the RAID controllers in a 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X slot.  This
> motherboard doesn't have any 64-bit 133Mhz PCI-X slots! (
> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigerk8we_spec.html).
> It's no wonder that the other raid controllers showed significantly
> less performance than the PCI-e card.

You're looking at the wrong board.  They are talking about the Tyan
*Thunder*, which does indeed have 64-bit PCI-X.  You are looking at the
Tyan **Tiger**, which does not.

--
Guy Rouillier

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