Re: hardware donation

On 07/10/2013 09:53 AM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote:
> Jane Street has a spare server we would like to donate to the postgres
> community.  We originally planed to use it for one of our database clusters
> and it matches exactly what we use in production at the moment.
> 
> Rough specs:
> CPU: 8x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5570  @ 2.93GHz
> MEM: 48GB
> 
> The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it.  That is
> where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential scan
> speed in particular):
> 
> 22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare
> disks. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration.
> 
> Is this something the community would find useful?  If so, who is the right
> person to talk to about shipping/delivery?

Mark, we can use this in the performance farm, no?

I know I could use it for testing ...

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