Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0ACB9FBF6D for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:35:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 81864-02 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:35:11 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from mail.dslr.net (mail.dslreports.com [209.123.192.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CF29FB7D4 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:35:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dslr.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF0C4295F for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:35:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.dslr.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (coral.dslreports.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07241-10 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:35:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail.dslr.net (Postfix, from userid 997) id AF6ED429EB; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:35:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.2.3] (ool-18bc0e98.dyn.optonline.net [24.188.14.152]) by mail.dslr.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA3E4295F for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:35:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <46BA8B52.2030204@dslr.net> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:34:42 -0400 From: justin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: mid 2007 "best bang for the buck" hardware opinions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dslr.net X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.001 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200708/77 X-Sequence-Number: 26207 I saw an interesting topic in the archives on best bang for the buck for $20k.. about a year old now. So whats the thoughts on a current combined rack/disks/cpu combo around the $10k-$15k point, currently? I can configure up a Dell poweredge 2900 for $9k, but am wondering if I'm missing out on something better. ( 9k spent with mr dell that gets you 2x quad core xeon X535s, so thats 8 cores total, with 24gb of memory and 8x 146gb 15k serial attached scsi connected, raid10, attached to a perc 5/i with redundant power supplies, all in what looks like a 3u chassis). But the system is pretty maxxed out like that, no room for future expansion. better options? or a better balance for a pure db box that is mostly smaller reads and large indexes? This would be to go into a rack with existing but older equipment that can be warm standby so I don't have to split the cost here for getting redundancy. thanks for any 2007 advice!