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From: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
To: Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
To: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@designaproduct.biz>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Poor performance on seq scan
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:33:48 -0700
Message-ID: <C12DB93C.30DDC%llonergan@greenplum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1BD8A62B-DE69-4EFA-9EB6-D11B7CBDDA9E@fastcrypt.com>


Lazlo,

>> Thank you for your suggestions. Looks like I need to buy SCSI disks.
> 
> Well before you go do that try the areca SATA raid card

Yes, by all means spend $200 and buy the Areca or 3Ware RAID card - it's a
simple switch out of the cables and you should be golden.

Again - you should only expect an increase in performance from 4-6 times
from what you are getting now unless you increase the number of disks.

- Luke





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