Re: [GENERAL] Another RAID controller recommendation question

2011-06-19 Thread Scott Ribe
On Jun 19, 2011, at 12:33 AM, David Boreham wrote: > One thing I don't understand is why is the BBU option never available with > "integrated" LSI controllers? Because "integrated" means it's on the mobo to save costs. -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303

Re: [GENERAL] Another RAID controller recommendation question

2011-06-18 Thread David Boreham
On 6/18/2011 1:22 AM, Greg Smith wrote: That said, the card itself looks like plain old simple LSI MegaRAID. Get the battery backup unit Thanks. Dell's web site drives me insane, and it appears I can save 20% or more by going white-box. One thing I don't understand is why is the BBU option

Re: [GENERAL] Another RAID controller recommendation question

2011-06-18 Thread Greg Smith
On 06/18/2011 02:46 AM, David Boreham wrote: We're looking to deploy a bunch of new machines. Our DB is fairly small and write-intensive. Most of the disk traffic is PG WAL. Historically we've avoided RAID controllers for various reasons, but this new deployment will be done with them (also for

[GENERAL] Another RAID controller recommendation question

2011-06-17 Thread David Boreham
We're looking to deploy a bunch of new machines. Our DB is fairly small and write-intensive. Most of the disk traffic is PG WAL. Historically we've avoided RAID controllers for various reasons, but this new deployment will be done with them (also for various reasons ;) We like to use white-boxis