Re: Article about PostgreSQL and RAID in Brazil

>The first part of the article can be found in
>http://www.sqlmagazine.com.br/colunistas.asp?artigo=Colunistas/RicardoRezende/06_Raid_P1.asp
>
>
The site seems to be down. I was looking forward to reading it. :(

>The first and most important step for RAID performance with PostgreSQL is to
>get a card with onboard battery back-up and enable the write cache for the
>card.   You do not want to enable the write cache *without* battery back-up
>because of the risk of data corruption after a power failure.
>
>
Here is a small example of the performance difference with write cache:

http://sh.nu/bonnie.txt

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