--- On Thu, 3/2/11, Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > The 5405 and 5805 models do have a known problem where they overheat if > you don't have enough cooling in the server box, with the 5805 seeming > to be the bigger source of such issues. See the reviews at > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103099 for > example. Scott Marlowe was griping recently about a similar issue in > some of the LSI models, too. I suspect it's a problem impacting > several of the larger RAID cards that use the big Intel IOP processors > for their RAID computations, given that's the part with the heatsink on > it.
> Quick summary: avoid the Adaptec 3405 and 4800. Rest are decent > cards. Just make sure you monitor the temperatures in your case (and > the card too if arcconf lets you, I haven't checked for that yet) if > you end up with a 5405/5805. I can attest to the 5805 and 5805Z cards running a little hot, the ones we're running tend to run in the high 60s and low 70s Celsius with fairly good airflow over them. I've been running some 5805s for 3 years now, and 5805Zs for a year and they've been really good, stable, fast cards. I monitor everything on them (including temperature) with nagios and a simple script that uses the arcconf utility. Glyn -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
