Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C409FB5D6 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:29:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20750-07 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:29:21 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from exchange.g2switchworks.com (mail.g2switchworks.com [38.98.183.40]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B21419FB4E2 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:29:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [10.10.1.37] ([10.10.1.37]) by exchange.g2switchworks.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:29:16 -0500 Message-ID: <467AFBBB.3040204@g2switchworks.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:29:15 -0500 From: Scott Marlowe User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francisco Reyes CC: christian.braun@tudor.lu, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Hardware suggestions References: <4679A822.9030104@g2switchworks.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jun 2007 22:29:16.0025 (UTC) FILETIME=[99E05690:01C7B453] X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.284 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=0.283, BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200706/496 X-Sequence-Number: 25529 Francisco Reyes wrote: > Scott Marlowe writes: > >> and a bit more resiliant to drive failure, RAID-5 can give you a lot >> of storage and very good read performance, so it works well for >> reporting / > > New controllers now also have Raid 6, which from the few reports I > have seen seems to have a good compromise of performance and space. > Very true. And if they've gone to the trouble of implementing RAID-6, they're usually at least halfway decent controllers.