From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Anj Adu <fotographs@gmail.com>
Cc: Iñigo Martinez Lasala <imartinez@vectorsf.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: more 10K disks or less 15K disks
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:12:51 -0600
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Anj Adu <fotographs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you all for the comments
>
> We have not benchmarked the new hardware yet..however..we do have
> existing hardware that deals with very high volumes and handle pretty
> well (Dell 2950 Intel 5430 8-cores with 6x450G 15K disks and 32G RAM -
> Perc 6iRaid controllers) with minimal IO wait . there are ususally
> about10-15 threads running at peak time with an average of 4-10
> threads overall.
>
> We are looking at high density boxes due to increasing storage requirements.
I assume the 24 2.5" box is the supermicro 2U machine? Those are
quite impressive little chassis's. If you need something bigger, take
a look at this:
http://www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/Stirling-X881.htm
You can add up to 8 16 disk JBOD boxes to it if needs be as well.
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