Re: How to make a REALLY FAST db server?

From: "Colin 't Hart" <cthart(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to make a REALLY FAST db server?
Date: 2001-09-11 10:23:19
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"Shaun Thomas" <sthomas(at)townnews(dot)com> wrote in message
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> > - Disk: SCSI Raid 1+0
>
> To really eek out as much speed as possible here, you'll want 10k RPM
> Ultra-160 Fibre Channel SCSI drives with a dedicated hardware raid
> controller. If have more reads than writes, you may want to use Raid 5
> instead.

15k RPM drives are available from Seagate and IBM. The Seagate drives
are slightly faster.

Cheers,

Colin

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