On 10/13/12 7:13 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
* Use a good quality hardware RAID controller with a battery backup cache unit if you're using spinning disks in RAID. This is as much for performance as reliability; a BBU will make an immense difference to database performance.
a comment on this one.... I have some test servers with lots of SAS and/or SATA drives on controllers like LSI Logic 9261-8i, with 512MB or 1GB battery-backed cache. I can configure the controller for JBOD and use linux mdraid raid10 and get the same performance as the controllers native raid10, as long as the write-back cache is enabled. disable the writeback cache, and you might as well be using SATA JBOD.
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