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Re: Recomended FS

scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>

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From: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-10-23T15:22:30Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> 
> > I believe that 3ware have a non blocking implementation of ATA RAID -
> > I intend to sell the Promise and obtain a 3ware in the next month of 
> > so and test this out.
> 
> 
> I use 3Ware exclusively for my ATA-RAID solutions. The nice thing about 
> them is that
> they are REAL hardware RAID and the use the SCSI layer within Linux so 
> you address
> them as a standard SCSI device.
> 
> Also their support is in the kernel... no wierd, experimental patching.
> 
> On a Dual 2000 Athlon MP I was able to sustain 50MB/sec over large
> copys (4+ gigs). Very, Very happy with them.

Do they survive the power plug pulling test I was talking about elsewhere 
in this thread?