Re: The HP MSA20 SATA-SCSI enclosure

On Thursday 06 July 2006 19:55, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Being an HP/Compaq shop, I'm looking at an Opteron-and-SATA-based
> DL145 G2 and an MSA20 SATA enclosure with a U320 interface to use
> with RHES4 and PostgreSQL.

I recently speced this exact hardware for a customer. When the customer called
HP to order, HP told them that it is not appropriate for a database. They
cited shorter life of the SATA drives and overall performance.

Is it true? I don't know. I have used SATA enclosures for databases for
sometime and have been quite happy with them.

You may also to look at the ml30 which is SCSI.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


>
> Anyone have Experience with this h/w+s/w combo?  It will be used as
> a "history server", so sub-second transaction times are not required.

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