Re: Hardware recommendations?

On 11/02/2016 10:03 AM, Steve Atkins wrote:
> I'm looking for generic advice on hardware to use for "mid-sized" postgresql servers, $5k or a bit more.
>
> There are several good documents from the 9.0 era, but hardware has moved on since then, particularly with changes in
SSDpricing. 
>
> Has anyone seen a more recent discussion of what someone might want for PostreSQL in 2017?

The rules haven't changed much, more cores (even if a bit slower) is
better than less, as much ram as the budget will allow and:

SSD

But make sure you get datacenter/enterprise SSDs. Consider that even a
slow datacenter/enterprise SSD can do 500MB/s random write and read just
as fast if not faster. That means for most installations, a RAID1 is
more than enough.

JD


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