X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6954D6E40 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:43:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19136-06 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:43:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C37D86BE for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:43:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([151.200.14.55]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IM200HZ7A0LHJM1@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:43:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802FF600652; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:43:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (osgiliath [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12171-04-5; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:43:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5185D60041D; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:43:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:43:32 -0400 From: Michael Stone Subject: Re: RAID Configuration Sugestion In-reply-to: <6.2.3.4.0.20050830203126.0221feb8@pop.earthlink.net> To: Ron Cc: Michael Stone , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Mail-Followup-To: Ron , Michael Stone , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Message-id: <20050831004332.GA14921@mathom.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 53 FF 38 00 E7 DD 0A 9C 84 52 84 C5 EE DF 7C 88 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at mathom.us References: <431452FD.3090402@atua.com.br> <6.2.3.4.0.20050830103240.0219b640@pop.earthlink.net> <43148FC4.4000407@commandprompt.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20050830132902.021a5308@pop.earthlink.net> <4314B329.20009@commandprompt.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20050830154823.05ac9308@pop.earthlink.net> <20050831000443.GZ14921@mathom.us> <6.2.3.4.0.20050830203126.0221feb8@pop.earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.039 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.011, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.05] X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200508/553 X-Sequence-Number: 14300 On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:41:40PM -0400, Ron wrote: >The scary thing is that I've worked on RW production systems that >bore a striking resemblance to a TPC benchmark system. As you can >imagine, they uniformly belonged to BIG organizations (read: lot's 'o >$$$) who were using the systems for mission critical stuff where >either it was company existence threatening for the system to be >done, or they would lose much $$$ per min of down time, or both. Yeah, and that market is relevant to someone with one dell server and 2 hard disks how? Mike Stone