Re: Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From William Yu
Subject Re: Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid
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In response to Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid  (Hannes Dorbath <light@theendofthetunnel.de>)
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William Yu wrote:
> We upgraded our disk system for our main data processing server earlier
> this year. After pricing out all the components, basically we had the
> choice of:
>
> LSI MegaRaid 320-2 w/ 1GB RAM+BBU + 8 15K 150GB SCSI
>
>   or
>
> Areca 1124 w/ 1GB RAM+BBU + 24 7200RPM 250GB SATA

My mistake -- I keep doing calculations and they don't add up. So I
looked again on pricewatch and it turns out the actual comparison was
for 4 SCSI drives, not 8! ($600 for a 15K 145GB versus $90 for a 7200
250GB.) No wonder our decision seemed to much more decisive back then.

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