Re: SCSI disk: still the way to go?

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 16:28, Riccardo Inverni wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>    I have to update a Linux box with PostgreSQL on it, essentially for
> data warehousing purposes. I had set it up about 3 years ago and at
> that time the best solution I had been recommended was to use SCSI
> disks with hardware RAID controllers.
>
>    Is this still the way to go or things have recently changed? Any
> other suggestion/advice? What about SAN?

Actually, modern SATA server drives are now considered competitive with
the proper RAID controller.

Nowadays most people seem to recommend the Areca controllers.  I haven't
used them myself, but would be happy to test them some day.