Re: Testing Sandforce SSD

From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Testing Sandforce SSD
Date: 2010-07-28 12:21:52
Message-ID: 54bfd3f0-9a42-11df-9b6a-001cc0cda50c@msgid.mathom.us
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:47:14PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>Note that SSDs aren't usually real fast at large sequential writes
>though, so it might be worth putting pg_xlog on a spinning pair in a
>mirror and seeing how much, if any, the SSD drive speeds up when not
>having to do pg_xlog.

xlog is also where I use ext2; it does bench faster for me in that
config, and the fsck issues don't really exist because you're not in a
situation with a lot of files being created/removed.

Mike Stone

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