Re: disk performance benchmarks

From: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: disk performance benchmarks
Date: 2004-09-15 02:20:23
Message-ID: CC6DC200-06BD-11D9-94FA-000A95D14982@kcilink.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general pgsql-performance


On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:49 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> It is my experience that RAID 5 is not that great for heavy write
> situations and that RAID 10 is better.
>
It is my experience that this depends entirely on how many spindles you
have in your RAID. For 4 or 5 spindles, I find RAID10 faster. With 14
spindles, it was more or less a toss-up for me.

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Christopher Browne 2004-09-15 03:20:40 Re: postgres book
Previous Message Matthew T. O'Connor 2004-09-15 02:01:21 Re: Corrupted Data?

Browse pgsql-performance by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Chris Browne 2004-09-15 02:34:53 Re: Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres -- merge tables
Previous Message Joshua D. Drake 2004-09-15 01:49:21 Re: disk performance benchmarks