On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:52:03AM -0600, Gerry Creager wrote: > Who do they think they are? NetApp?
That's what you get for buying commodity stuff that's not marketed to you. If you have a business-critical database that needs a lot of 9's of uptime, and to never, ever lose data, it makes sense to only buy disks which are the exact hardware/firmware that's been tested with that controller. Note that this is what Dell considers a high end controller. If you're an HPC shop, you don't want to pay for that kind of reliability. I'm having a similar fun situation with HP. They don't sell any MLC SSDs, because they aren't reliable enough to run a traditional database that gets lots of writes. Well, I know I don't write that much. Also, their support organization no longer understands the concept of parts that wear out. I managed to talk them into selling me caddies for MLC SSDs, but only because it was the end of their fiscal year. And don't get me started about the fun of getting support when I'm using their "high end" P410 RAID card as a JBOD... -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
