Re: New server: SSD/RAID recommendations?

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Craig James <cjames(at)emolecules(dot)com> wrote:
> > We're buying a new server in the near future to replace an aging system.
> I'd
> > appreciate advice on the best SSD devices and RAID controller cards
> > available today.
> > ....
> SSDs are great, until you need more space. I'd rather have an 8TB xlog
> partition of spinners when setting up replication and xlog archiving
> than a 500GB xlog partition. 8TB sounds like a lot until you need to
> hold on to a week's worth of xlog files on a busy server.
>

Good point. I'll talk to our guy who does all the barman stuff about this.

Craig

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Craig A. James
Chief Technology Officer
eMolecules, Inc.
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