Recommendations on how to combine SSD and HDD drives in bare metal PostgreSQL server

From: Onni Hakala <onni(at)fyff(dot)ee>
To: pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Recommendations on how to combine SSD and HDD drives in bare metal PostgreSQL server
Date: 2024-10-16 14:06:24
Message-ID: 89E7D559-F734-4739-9730-7EDDF787910D@flaky.build
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Hey,

I have a large dataset of > 100TB which would be very expensive to store solely into SSD drives.

I have access to a server which has 2x 3.84TB NVME SSD disks and large array of HDD drives 8 x 22TB.

Most of the data that I have in my dataset is very rarely accessed and is stored only for archival purposes.

What would be the de-facto way to use both SSD and HDD together in a way use where commonly used data would be fast to access and old data would eventually only be stored in compressed format in the HDDs?

I was initially looking into building zpool using zfs with raidz3 and zstd compression for my HDDs but I’m unsure how to add the SSDs into this equation and I thought that this is probably a common scenario and wanted to ask opinions from here.

Thanks in advance,
Onni Hakala

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