Re: Need help with 8.4 Performance Testing

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> 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.

I don't know about fitting in a 3U, but you can get a 24 15k 73G SAS
drive machine with 8 gig ram and a single quad core CPU from
aberdeeninc.com for $10,055.00.