Re: hardware for a server

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: A B <gentosaker(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: hardware for a server
Date: 2010-03-15 19:02:42
Message-ID: 201003151902.o2FJ2gu03503@momjian.us
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Greg Smith wrote:
> Given what you've said about your budget here, I suspect that you're
> heading toward either 3ware or LSI and all SATA drives. I wouldn't
> expect that big of a performance difference between the two with only 8
> drives on there. If you had 24, the 3ware controller would likely turn
> into the bottleneck, and if this was an all SAS system the LSI one would
> also be the only sensible choice. (Make sure you get the right battery
> included with whatever controller you pick)

Is this documented somewhere, like on our wiki? It seems we have a
clear consensus on this and we should document this.

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