Optimal checkpoint_setting

Hello All,
I have a brand new machine to tune:
x3750 M4, 4xE5-4640v2 2.2GHz; 512GBRAM (32x16GB), 4x300GB
SAS + SSD (Easy Tier) in RAID 10

What's particularly important now is to choose optimal configuration for
write operations. We have discussion about checkpoint_segments and
checkpoint_timeout parameters. Test, which was based on pg_replay, has shown
that the biggest amount of data is written when checkpoint_segments are set
to 10 000 and checkpoint_timeout to 30 min, but I'm worrying about amount of
time needed for crash recovery. On the other hand it's mighty machine :) and
I don't wanna go back with 30 segments.

I'd appreciate any helpful remark on that.

The rest of parameters from the test:
shared_buffers=2GB
temp_buffers=128MB
max_files_per_process=500
work_mem=256MB
maintenance_work_mem=128MB
effective_io_concurrency=50
synchronous_commit=local
wal_buffers=512kB
wal_writer_delay=1ms
commit_delay=100
commit_siblings=1000
random_page_cost=1.0
cpu_tuple_cost=2.0
effective_cache_size=500GB
geqo_threshold=20
geqo_effort=10
geqo_selection_bias=2.0
join_collapse_limit=16

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