Re: Postgresql 9.0.6 Raid 5 or not please help.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:36 PM, tuanhoanganh <hatuan05(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I have IBM x3560 with 2G RAM - RAID 5 3 disk - PostgreSQL 9.0.6 64bit on
>> Windows 2003 64bit
>> I had read some tuning guide, it recomment not use RAID 5. So Raid 5 is
>> bestter than 3 disk independent or not.
>>
>> Here is my pgbench -h %HOST% -p 5433 -U postgres -c 10 -T 1800 -s 10
>> pgbench
>>
>> pgbench -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5433 -U postgres -c 10  -T 1800  -s 10 pgbench
>> Scale option ignored, using pgbench_branches table count = 10
>> starting vacuum...end.
>> transaction type: TPC-B (sort of)
>> scaling factor: 10
>> query mode: simple
>> number of clients: 10
>> number of threads: 1
>> duration: 1800 s
>> number of transactions actually processed: 775366
>> tps = 430.736191 (including connections establishing)
>> tps = 430.780400 (excluding connections establishing)
>
> RAID 5 is aweful.  Look up RAID 1E for 3 disks:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#RAID_1E

If Windows doesn't support RAID 1E then setup a mirror set and use the
third drive as a hot spare. Still faster than RAID-5.