Re: Ideal Disk recommendation for PostgreSQL

In response to Bhaskar Sirohi :
> Hi All,
>
> We are right now in initial phase to setup a production server having
> PostgreSQL database installed and would require help with Disk configuration.
> The database size would grow approx to 500 GB. I have gone through the
> following link http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/hw_performance/index.html
> which was very helpful.  However what I would like to understand is, do you
> have any figures around minimum / optimal disk performance for postgresql to
> operate? As an example I remember MS have a document on Exchange that gives

Not really. If you have enough money, you can divide your disk-space
into 2 or 3 parts (separate disks and controllers) for data, indexes and
WAL-logging, using tablespaces. But all depends on your workload (and
the available money ...)


Regards, Andreas
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