Dear Experts, For what its worth : I have been running a postgresql database on a hardware raid 5 (adaptec 2400A hardware card and 4 x 200GB WD IDE drives) for about 6months and in my (relatively low volume read write by transaction standards described by others here) environment all has been smooth.
MItchell Laks >On Thursday 18 December 2003 12:13 am, you wrote: > When grilled further on (Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:45:43 -0700 (MST)), > > "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> confessed: > > Just wondering, was that on hardware or software RAID5, and if hardware > > did it have battery backed cache controllers? Makes a huge difference. > > I would never use SW RAID5 for heavily written databases. > > Hardware raid on Sun Ultra 4 and Ultra 250. I do not know what type of > controller, or if it's battery backed. It's up in the data center, and > I've never even seen them... > > cheers, > rob ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
