From: | david(at)lang(dot)hm |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | jd(at)commandprompt(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 15:44:42 |
Message-ID: | alpine.DEB.1.10.0812130743240.17688@asgard.lang.hm |
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Those intel SSDs sound compelling. I've been waiting for SSDs to get
>>> competitive price and performance wise for a while, and when the
>>> intels came out and I read the first benchmarks I immediately began
>>> scheming. Sadly, that was right after we're ordered our new 16 drive
>>> servers, and I didn't have time to try something new and hope it would
>>> work. Now that the servers are up and running, we'll probably look at
>>> adding the SSDs next summer before our high load period begins.
>>
>> The idea of SSDs is interesting. However I think I will wait for all the
>> other early adopters to figure out the problems before I start
>> suggesting them to clients.
>>
>> Hard drives work, their cheap and fast. I can get 25 spindles, 15k in a
>> 3U with controller and battery backed cache for <$10k.
>
> 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.
1 spindle == 1 hard drive
David Lang
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