Re: compact flash disks?

From: cedric <cedric(at)over-blog(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "James Mansion" <james(at)mansionfamily(dot)plus(dot)com>
Subject: Re: compact flash disks?
Date: 2007-03-07 16:12:37
Message-ID: 200703071712.37994.cedric@over-blog.com
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Le mardi 6 mars 2007 23:18, James Mansion a écrit :
> I see that one can now get compact flash to SATA connectors.
I can suggest you to have a look at Gigabyte i-ram .
We use it on a website with higth traffic with lot of succes. Unfortunely, I
can not provide any benchmark...
>
> If I were to use a filesystem with noatime etc and little non-sql traffic,
> does the physical update pattern tend to have hot sectors that will tend to
> wear out CF?
>
> I'm wondering about a RAID5 with data on CF drives and RAID1 for teh WAL on
> a fast SATA or SAS drive pair. I'm thhinking that this would tend to have
> good performance because the seek time for the data is very low, even if
> the actual write speed can be slower than state of the art. 2GB CF isn't
> so pricey any more.
>
> Just wondering.
>
> James
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