> ASAcomputers has been the most helpful of all the vendors so far, so thanks > for point me at them. I know you've been posting results with the Areca and > 3ware controllers, do you have a preference for one over the other? It seems > that you can only get 256MB cache with the 3ware 9550SX and you can get 512MB > with the 9650SE, but only the Areca cards go up to 1GB.
Don't count out LSI either. They make a great SATA controller based off their very well respected SCSI controller. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > I'm curious how big a performance gain we would see going from 256MB cache to > 512MB to 1GB. This is for a web site backend DB which is mostly read > intensive, but occassionally has large burts of write activity due to new > user > signups generated by the marketing engine. > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly