Due to various third party issues, and the fact PG rules, we're planning on migrating our deplorable informix db to PG. It is a rather large DB with a rather high amount of activity (mostly updates). So I'm going to be aquiring a dual (or quad if they'll give me money) box. (In my testing my glorious P2 with a 2 spindle raid0 is able to handle it fairly well)
What I'm wondering about is what folks experience with software raid vs hardware raid on linux is. A friend of mine ran a set of benchmarks at work and found sw raid was running obscenely faster than the mylex and (some other brand that isn't 3ware) raids.. On the pro-hw side you have ones with battery backed cache, chacnes are they are less likely to fail.. On the pro-sw side you have lots of speed and less cost (unfortunately, there is a pathetic budget so spending $15k on a raid card is out of the question really). any thoughts? -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
