Re: Tuning to speed select

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Laudeman <twl8n(at)virginia(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Tuning to speed select
Date: 2006-08-11 16:40:56
Message-ID: 44DCB318.8040400@commandprompt.com
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Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # twl8n(at)virginia(dot)edu / 2006-08-11 10:12:40 -0400:
>> I think my Dell Precision 650 has SATA on the motherboard. The boss says
>> I can order one drive, so what should I get? How much faster is RAID 0+1
>> than a single drive?

If you can order one drive, get a drive that is twice the size of what
you have. Use one partition of that drive to create a raid 1. Use the
other partition to push off nightly rsyncs :)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> You need 4 disks for 0+1 (or 1+0, also called 10).
>

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