| From: | Adam Witney <awitney(at)sghms(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
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| To: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Adam Witney <awitney(at)sghms(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Hardware advice |
| Date: | 2003-05-30 16:55:40 |
| Message-ID: | BAFD4B9C.1C9C5%a.witney@sghms.ac.uk |
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Hi scott,
Thanks for the info
> You might wanna do something like go to all 146 gig drives, put a mirror
> set on the first 20 or so gigs for the OS, and then use the remainder
> (5x120gig or so ) to make your RAID5. The more drives in a RAID5 the
> better, generally, up to about 8 or 12 as the optimal for most setups.
I am not quite sure I understand what you mean here... Do you mean take 20Gb
from each of the 5 drives to setup a 20Gb RAID 1 device? Or just from the
first 2 drives?
Thanks again for your help
adam
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