Re: Reliability recommendations

Jeremy Haile wrote:
> We are a small company looking to put together the most cost effective
> solution for our production database environment. Currently in
> production Postgres 8.1 is running on this machine:
>
> Dell 2850
> 2 x 3.0 Ghz Xeon 800Mhz FSB 2MB Cache
> 4 GB DDR2 400 Mhz
> 2 x 73 GB 10K SCSI RAID 1 (for xlog and OS)
> 4 x 146 GB 10K SCSI RAID 10 (for postgres data)
> Perc4ei controller
>
> The above is a standard Dell box with nothing added or modified beyond
> the options available directly through Dell.
You should probably review the archives for PostgreSQL user
experience with Dell's before you purchase one.

> I sent our scenario to our sales team at Dell and they came back with
> all manner of SAN, DAS, and configuration costing as much as $50k.
>
HAHAHAHAHA.... Don't do that. Dell is making the assumption
you won't do your homework. Make sure you cross quote with IBM,
Compaq and Penguin Computing...

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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