Re: availability of SATA vendors

From: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Bucky Jordan <bjordan(at)lumeta(dot)com>, Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: availability of SATA vendors
Date: 2006-11-22 17:02:04
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0611220901210.4382@discord.home.frostconsultingllc.com
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>> I could only find the 6 disk RAID5 numbers in the archives that were run with
>> bonnie++1.03. Have you run the RAID10 tests since? Did you settle on 6 disk
>> RAID5 or 2xRAID1 + 4XRAID10?
>
> Why not 6 drive raid 10? IIRC you need 4 to start RAID 10 but only pairs
> after that.

A valid question. Does the caching raid controller negate the desire to
separate pg_xlog from PGDATA?

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