From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tore Halset <halset@pvv.ntnu.no>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: dell versus hp
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:48:31 -0500
Message-ID: <20071106134831.GW5031@tamriel.snowman.net> (raw)
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Tore,
* Tore Halset (halset@pvv.ntnu.no) wrote:
> All of our existing servers are from Dell, but I want to look at some other
> options as well. We are currently looking at rack boxes with 8 internal SAS
> discs. Two mirrored for OS, Two mirrored for WAL and 4 in raid 10 for the
> base.
I'm a big HP fan, personally. Rather than talking about the hardware
for a minute though, I'd suggest you check out what's happening for 8.3.
Here's a pretty good writeup by Greg Smith on it:
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/chkp-bgw-83.htm
Hopefully it'll help w/ whatever hardware you end up going with.
Enjoy,
Stephen
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