Message-ID: <44349D44.10902@eclinic.com.au>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:47:00 +1000
From: Leigh Dyer <leigh@eclinic.com.au>
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To: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
Cc: "Juan Casero (FL FLC)" <Juan.Casero@wholefoods.com>,
	Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3
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Luke Lonergan wrote:
> Leigh,
> 
> On 4/5/06 9:23 PM, "Leigh Dyer" <leigh@eclinic.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> We've got a Sun Fire V40z and it's quite a nice machine -- 6x 15krpm
>> drives, 4GB RAM, and a pair of Opteron 850s. This gives us more than
>> enough power now for what we need, but it's nice to know that we can
>> shoehorn a lot more RAM, and up it to eight CPU cores if needed.
> 
> We have one of these too - ours is signed by Scott McNealy.
>  
Nice :)

>> The newer Sun Opteron systems look nice too, but unless you're using
>> external storage, their little 2.5" hard drives may not be ideal.
> 
> Yes - but they end-of-lifed the V20z and V40z!
> 
That's quite disappointing to hear -- our V40z isn't even six months 
old! We're not a big company, so external storage solutions are outside 
our price range, but we still wanted a nice brand-name box, and the V40z 
was a great deal compared to smaller boxes like the HP DL385.

> One big problem with the sun line in general is the tiny internal storage
> capacity - already too small on the V40z at 5/6 drives, now ridiculous at 4
> SAS drives on the galaxy series.
I'm sure those little SAS drives would be great for web servers and 
other non-IO-intensive tasks though -- I'd love to get some X4100s in to 
replace our Poweredge 1750s for that. It's a smart move overall IMHO, 
but it's certainly not great for database serving.

Thanks
Leigh
> 
> - Luke
>