Re: 6 SCSI Disks RAID 10 x 2 SCSI DISKS RAID1 + 4 SCSI Disks RAID 10

Well, there are quite a few more variables to consider, including:

a) speed of the drives
b) battery backed caching controller or not
c) throughput of the controller channels
d) your particular use

Point d is kind of the most important. We've got about 250 customers talking to the same back-end database server with an IBM ServeRaid card. Our O/S is on a RAID 1 while our pgdata (including logs, in our case) is on an external FC array with 14 drives (12 online, 2 HSP, RAID 10). Our performance is pretty good, though we're a bit CPU bound (not I/O bound at this time) due to an older server system.

What sort of data/usage you're going to have in that database is pretty important. Heavy SELECT databases have different implications than heavy INSERT databases.

So far as the RAID controller goes, so long as it's got 2 or more channels, and the sustained throughput of the card is 100% on each channel, you're fine there.

We _did_ find a significant performance increase splitting our O/S and our PostgreSQL data, but *** in our case, at the time of testing *** we did not see an appreciable difference in splitting the logs off to their own volume.

----- "Renato Oliveira" <renato(dot)oliveira(at)grant(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
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Good afternoon Guys,

I have been reading about RAID for PostgreSQL and some suggestions are:

6 SCSI Disks RAID10 for OS and DB

Or

2 SCSI Disks RAID 1 for OS + 4 SCSI RAID 10 for DB

I know the more spindles you have the better, but if you are going to be reading and writing to the same volume with a single controller, how good that will be?

How do you guys have your RAIDS setup?

Thank you

Renato

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