Re: Bench marking performance or experience using Solid State Disk Drives (SSD) with postgres

From: Howard Cole <howardnews(at)selestial(dot)com>
To: Chris Barnes <compuguruchrisbarnes(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres General Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bench marking performance or experience using Solid State Disk Drives (SSD) with postgres
Date: 2009-11-05 13:46:54
Message-ID: 4AF2D74E.1070704@selestial.com
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Chris Barnes wrote:
> Does anyone use solid state drives for postgres?
>
> Has there been any benchmark that states whether mechanical disk
> drives out perform solid state drives?
>
> Is there any benefit, they are quite expensive.
>
> Chris Barnes
>
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I use a single SSD on one of our servers and it appears to be much more
responsive than a single 15K SAS drive - Thats as scientific as my
testing gets! The database I use is mostly reads.

Careful which SSD you choose because there is a wide variation in
performance.

Howard Cole
www.selestial.com

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