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Re: Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID

Ralf Schramm <ralf.schramm@bahn.de>

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From: Ralf Schramm <ralf.schramm@bahn.de>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-08-25T23:03:52Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
the XServe/XRaid comes with FibreChannel

Here some infos:
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/architecture.html
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/fibre_channel.html
http://www.apple.com/xserve/architecture.html

Ralf Schramm


Am 25.08.2004 um 23:22 schrieb Josh Berkus:

> Robert,
>
>> Just curious if folks have ever used this for a postgresql server and 
>> if
>> they used it with OSX/BSD/Linux. Even if you haven't used it, if you
>> know of something comparable I'd be interested.  TIA
>
> Last I checked Apple was still shipping the XServes with SATA drives 
> and a
> PROMISE controller, both very consumer-grade (and not server-grade) 
> hardware.
> I can't recommend the XServe as a database platform.  SCSI still makes 
> a
> difference for databases, more because of the controllers than 
> anything else.
>
> -- 
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco