Re: SATA drives performance

Hello,

Instead of using 3 disks in RAID-0 and one without RAID for archive, I
would rather  invest into one  extra disk and  have either a  RAID 1+0
setup or use two  disks in RAID-1 for the WAL and  two disks in RAID-1
for the main database (I'm not sure which perform better between those
two solutions).

RAID-1 will  give you about twice as  fast reads as no  RAID (and RAID
1+0  will give  you twice  as  fast as  RAID 0),  with no  significant
penalty for writing, and it'll save  a lot of manpower in case on disk
dies.

If you can  afford hot-swappable disks, you can  even replace a failed
disk live, in a few minutes, with no failure at software level.

Everything  can be  remotely setup,  including adding/removing  a disk
from RAID  array, if  you use Linux  software RAID (mdadm),  except of
course  the physical  swap of  the disk,  but that  can be  done  by a
non-technician.

This  solution  costs  only  one  extra disk  (which  is  quite  cheap
nowadays) and  will deliver  enhanced performances and  save a  lot of
manpower and downtime in case of disk breaking.

Regards,

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Gaël Le Mignot - gael@pilotsystems.net
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