Francisco Reyes wrote:
Alan Hodgson writes:

I would spring for a 4-port with a BBU, though, and then put the WAL on the drives with the OS.

The machine is already over budget. :-(
I will check the price difference but unlikely I will get approval.

Without a BBU you are guaranteed at some point to have catastrophic failure unless you turn off write cache, which would then destroy your performance.

Joshua D. Drake



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