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From: Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: Ron <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: sustained update load of 1-2k/sec
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:34:44 -0700
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On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:54 -0400, Ron wrote:
> Maxtor Atlas 15K II's.

> Areca's 1GB buffer RAID cards 

The former are SCSI disks and the latter is an SATA controller.  The
combination would have a transaction rate of approximately 0.

I can vouch for the Areca controllers, however.  You can certainly
achieve pgbench transaction rates in the hundreds per second even with
only 5 7200RPM disks and 128MB cache.

Don't forget to buy the battery.

-jwb



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