Re: most bang for buck with ~ $20,000

On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>> I am considering a setup such as this:
>>   - At least dual cpu (possibly with 2 cores each)
>>   - 4GB of RAM
>>   - 2 disk RAID 1 array for root disk
>>   - 4 disk RAID 1+0 array for PGDATA
>>   - 2 disk RAID 1 array for pg_xlog
>> Does anyone know a vendor that might be able provide such setup?

Wouldn't it be preferable to put WAL on a multi-disk RAID 10 if you
had the opportunity? This gives you the redundancy of RAID 1 but
approaches the performance of RAID 0, especially as you add disks to
the array. In benchmarking, I've seen consistent success with this
approach.

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