Might want to check out the HP MSA70 arrays. I've had better luck with them and you can get 25 drives in a smaller rack unit size. I had a bad experience with the MD3000 and now only buy MD1000's with Perc 6/e when I buy Dell.
Good luck!
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Jeffrey Baker <jwbaker@gmail.com> wrote:
Thinking about buying the Powervault MD3000 SAS array with 15 15k 300GB disks for use as a postgres tablespace. Is anyone using these (or other LSI/Engenio rebadge jobs?). I'm interested in hearing about performance of the array, and problems (if any) with Dell's SAS HBA that comes bundled. Also interested in performance of the maximum config of an MD3000 with two MD1000 shelves.