Re: Need help with 8.4 Performance Testing

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: david(at)lang(dot)hm
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com>, Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8(at)verizon(dot)net>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Need help with 8.4 Performance Testing
Date: 2008-12-13 18:37:43
Message-ID: 1229193463.7198.224.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 07:44 -0800, david(at)lang(dot)hm wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Robert Haas wrote:

> > This may be a little off-topic, but I'd be interested in hearing more
> > details about how you (or others) would do this... manufacturer,
> > model, configuration? How many hard drives do you need to get 25
> > spindles? And where can you get that many 15K hard drives for under
> > $10K? My lack of experience in this area is showing here, but,
> > seriously, any suggestions appreciated.
>

http://h71016.www7.hp.com/ctoBases.asp?oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID=&ProductLineId=450&FamilyId=2570&LowBaseId=15222&LowPrice=$1,899.00&familyviewgroup=757&viewtype=Matrix

Retail cost, 15k, 36GB drives, ~ 12k. A phone call and threat of buying
dell gets its for ~ 10k.

Joshua D. Drake

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