Hardware recommendation: which is best

From: "Phoenix Kiula" <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Postgres General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Hardware recommendation: which is best
Date: 2007-09-11 11:48:47
Message-ID: e373d31e0709110448u371e7cbarc2d5380475ae4050@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

We're trying to look for the most optimal config for a heavy duty
production server, and the following two are falling in the same price
range from our supplier:

Option 1:
2 x 300GB SCSI (10k rpm) with SAS and RAID 1

Option 2:
4 x 300GB SATA2 (7200 rpm, server grade) with RAID 10

I am not sure how the pricing comes so similar with such different
RAID options, but given the two above I think the second option will
be better for a high volume server where Postgres is the main
application? The only reason I ask is because of so many websites, and
threads on this list, that trump the advantages of SCSI. Many thanks
for any advice!

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