From: PFC <lists@peufeu.com>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:04:54 +0100
Message-ID: <op.s6r1yglhcigqcu@apollo13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878CF1DF-7173-4620-B56A-0CC8D25B3671@khera.org>
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>> Expensive SCSI hardware RAID cards with expensive 10Krpm harddisks
>> should not get humiliated by such a simple (and cheap) setup. (I'm
>> referring to the 12-drive RAID10 mentioned before, not the other one
>> which was a simple 2-disk mirror). Toms hardware benchmarked some
>> hardware RAIDs and got humongous transfer rates... hm ?
>>
>
> I'll put up my "slow" 12 disk SCSI array up against your IDE array on a
> large parallel load any day.
Sure, and I have no doubt that yours will be immensely faster on parallel
loads than mine, but still, it should also be the case on sequential
scan... especially since I have desktop PCI and the original poster has a
real server with PCI-X I think.
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