| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Pascal Cohen" <pcohen(at)wimba(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Hardware question for a DB server |
| Date: | 2008-03-14 19:43:33 |
| Message-ID: | dcc563d10803141243t13cb7c31l88afacc14f63d459@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Pascal Cohen <pcohen(at)wimba(dot)com> wrote:
> I agree with what you are saying. We are using Java with a pool of
> connections to access the DB. Today our database is really small
> compared to the RAM but it may evolve and even will probably grow (hope
> so which would be a good situation).
>
Keep in mind that differential cost between a mediocre and a good RAID
controller is often only a few hundred dollars. If that means you can
scale to 10 or 100 times as many users, it's an investment worth
making up front rather than later on.
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