Re: dell versus hp

On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:53 , Dimitri Fontaine wrote:

> Le mardi 06 novembre 2007, Tore Halset a écrit :
>> 1) Dell 2900 (5U)
>> 8 * 146 GB SAS 15Krpm 3,5"
>> 8GB ram
>> Perc 5/i. battery backup. 256MB ram.
>> 2 * 4 Xeon 2,66GHz
>
> In fact you can add 2 hot-plug disks on this setup, connected to the
> frontpane. We've bought this very same model with 10 15 rpm disks  
> some weeks
> ago, and it reached production last week.
>
> So we have 2 OS raid1 disk (with /var/backups and /var/log ---  
> pg_log), 2
> raid1 disk for WAL and 6 disks in a RAID10, the 3 raids managed by the
> included Perc raid controller. So far so good!

Interesting. Do you have any benchmarking numbers? Did you test with  
software raid 10 as well?

Regards,
  - Tore.