Re: hardware for a server

Greg Smith wrote:
> Given what you've said about your budget here, I suspect that you're
> heading toward either 3ware or LSI and all SATA drives.  I wouldn't
> expect that big of a performance difference between the two with only 8
> drives on there.  If you had 24, the 3ware controller would likely turn
> into the bottleneck, and if this was an all SAS system the LSI one would
> also be the only sensible choice.  (Make sure you get the right battery
> included with whatever controller you pick)

Is this documented somewhere, like on our wiki?  It seems we have a
clear consensus on this and we should document this.

--
  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com

  PG East:  http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do