Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec
Date: 2006-03-21 15:33:32
Message-ID: 878CF1DF-7173-4620-B56A-0CC8D25B3671@khera.org
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On Mar 20, 2006, at 6:27 PM, PFC wrote:

> Expensive SCSI hardware RAID cards with expensive 10Krpm harddisks
> should not get humiliated by such a simple (and cheap) setup. (I'm
> referring to the 12-drive RAID10 mentioned before, not the other
> one which was a simple 2-disk mirror). Toms hardware benchmarked
> some hardware RAIDs and got humongous transfer rates... hm ?
>

I'll put up my "slow" 12 disk SCSI array up against your IDE array on
a large parallel load any day.

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