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 > > -- > Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance >