Re: OT hardware recommend

From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OT hardware recommend
Date: 2016-06-18 02:42:13
Message-ID: 1b8eeb17-06dd-2708-2660-123ebd831454@archidevsys.co.nz
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On 18/06/16 14:23, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net
> <mailto:andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I have access to quite a few laptop HD's (10 to 15 of them at
> least), and thought that might make a neat test box that might
> have some good IO speed.
>
> Needs to be cheap though, so linux with software raid, rack mount
> preferred but not required.
>
> Anyone have any experience with anything like that? $2K might be
> possible, painful, but possible.
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
> Sell them all and buy a couple of 800G SSDs? :)

You can get 4TB SSD's now - but somewhat pricey!!!

(besides, you'd still need backups)

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