From: Eric Comeau <ecomeau@signiant.com>
Subject: How to achieve sustained disk performance of 1.25 GB write for 5 mins
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:26:56 -0500
Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services
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To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org

This is not directly a PostgreSQL performance question but I'm hoping 
some of the chaps that build high IO PostgreSQL servers on here can help.

We build file transfer acceleration s/w (and use PostgreSQL as our 
database) but we need to build a test server that can handle a sustained 
write throughput of 1,25 GB for 5 mins.

Why this number, because we want to push a 10 Gbps network link for 5-8 
mins, 10Gbps = 1.25 GB write, and would like to drive it for 5-8 mins 
which would be 400-500 GB.

Note this is just a "test" server therefore it does not need fault 
tolerance.

Thanks in advance,
Eric