Re: Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

> 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.

The XServe RAID is fibre-channel.

-Doug
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