Re: Very large database

Hi Chris,

Chris Albertson wrote:
>
<snip>
> Solaris has very good RAID support built in.  I think better
> than Linux's.  Both OSes are free although Solaris 8 will be the
> last PC version.

Where did you hear that Solaris 8 will be the last PC version?  By "PC",
do you mean "Intel Platform" version?

???

I half downloaded the "Intel Platform" cd's for the Solaris 9 Early
Access program about a month ago, and now when I go to the Sun site the
rest are not available.

This makes me greatly concerned.  :(

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


<snip>
> --- Michael Welter <mike@introspect.com> wrote:
> > I need some help here.  We need to implement a 180+GB database with
> > 120+MB of updates every evening.  Rather than purchasing the big
> > iron,
> > we would like to use postgres running over Linux 2.4.x as the data
> > server.  Is this even possible?  Who has the largest database out
> > there
> > and what does it run on?
> >
> > How should we implement the disk array?  Should we purchase a
> > hardware
> > RAID card or should we use the software RAID capabilities in Linux
> > 2.4?
> >   Should we consider a SMP system?  Should we use an outboard RAID
> > box
> > (like RaidZone)?
> >
> > If anyone out there has implemented a database of this size then I
> > would
> > like to correspond with you.
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
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