Re: 3ware vs Areca - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Francisco Reyes
Subject Re: 3ware vs Areca
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Msg-id cone.1216431595.291323.79328.1000@zoraida.natserv.net
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In response to 3ware vs Areca  (Jeff <threshar@torgo.978.org>)
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Jeffrey Baker writes:

> Their firmware is, frankly, garbage.  In more than one instance we
> have had the card panic when a disk fails, which is obviously counter
> to the entire purpose of a RAID.

I have had simmilar problems with 3ware 9550 and 9650 cards.
Undre FreeBSD I have seen constant crashes under heavy loads.
Used to think it was just FreeBSD, but saw a thread on StorageReview where
the same was happening under Linux.

> controllers from our database server and replaced them with HP P800s.

How is that working out?
Which RAID level? SAS/SATA?

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