Re: availability of SATA vendors - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Arjen van der Meijden
Subject Re: availability of SATA vendors
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Msg-id 455E0B5F.8040806@tweakers.net
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In response to availability of SATA vendors  (Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On 17-11-2006 18:45 Jeff Frost wrote:
> I see many of you folks singing the praises of the Areca and 3ware SATA
> controllers, but I've been trying to price some systems and am having
> trouble finding a vendor who ships these controllers with their
> systems.  Are you rolling your own white boxes or am I just looking in
> the wrong places?

In Holland it are indeed the smaller companies who supply such cards.
But luckily there is a very simple solution, all those big suppliers do
supply SAS-controllers. And as you may know, SATA disks can be used
without any problem on a SAS controller. Of course they are less
advanced and normally slower than a SAS disk.

So you can have a nice SAS raid card and insert SATA disks in it. And
than you can shop at any major server vendor I know off.

Good luck,

Arjen

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