From: Adam Witney <awitney@sghms.ac.uk>
To: scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
To: Adam Witney <awitney@sghms.ac.uk>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Hardware advice
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:55:40 +0100
Message-ID: <BAFD4B9C.1C9C5%a.witney@sghms.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0305300920200.31323-100000@css120.ihs.com>
Hi scott,
Thanks for the info
> You might wanna do something like go to all 146 gig drives, put a mirror
> set on the first 20 or so gigs for the OS, and then use the remainder
> (5x120gig or so ) to make your RAID5. The more drives in a RAID5 the
> better, generally, up to about 8 or 12 as the optimal for most setups.
I am not quite sure I understand what you mean here... Do you mean take 20Gb
from each of the 5 drives to setup a 20Gb RAID 1 device? Or just from the
first 2 drives?
Thanks again for your help
adam
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