Might want to check out the HP MSA70 arrays.  I've had better luck with them
and you can get 25 drives in a smaller rack unit size.  I had a bad
experience with the MD3000 and now only buy MD1000's with Perc 6/e when I
buy Dell.
Good luck!

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thinking about buying the Powervault MD3000 SAS array with 15 15k
> 300GB disks for use as a postgres tablespace.  Is anyone using these
> (or other LSI/Engenio rebadge jobs?).  I'm interested in hearing about
> performance of the array, and problems (if any) with Dell's SAS HBA
> that comes bundled.  Also interested in performance of the maximum
> config of an MD3000 with two MD1000 shelves.
>
> -Jeff
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