Re: most bang for buck with ~ $20,000

Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
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> On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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>>> I am considering a setup such as this:
>>> - At least dual cpu (possibly with 2 cores each)
>>> - 4GB of RAM
>>> - 2 disk RAID 1 array for root disk
>>> - 4 disk RAID 1+0 array for PGDATA
>>> - 2 disk RAID 1 array for pg_xlog
>>> Does anyone know a vendor that might be able provide such setup?
>
> Wouldn't it be preferable to put WAL on a multi-disk RAID 10 if you had
> the opportunity? This gives you the redundancy of RAID 1 but approaches
> the performance of RAID 0, especially as you add disks to the array. In
> benchmarking, I've seen consistent success with this approach.

WALL is written in order so RAID 1 is usually fine. We also don't need
journaling for WAL so the speed is even faster.

Joshua D. Drake

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