Re: more 10K disks or less 15K disks

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Anj Adu <fotographs(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: more 10K disks or less 15K disks
Date: 2010-04-29 19:45:24
Message-ID: s2sdcc563d11004291245p6b1c6d21ica829e7c5730201a@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Anj Adu <fotographs(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> With the increase in the number of disks that we can afford to have in
> 1 box..we will definitely plan on having WAL on dedicated disks.
> Previously..we were stuck with the chassis limitation of 6 disks per
> box.

Yeah, the smallest machine I use to build a db server now is one that
can hold 8 drives, 4 for a slony clone maybe. If you go with the
24x2.5 chassis please report back on how it works. I'm looking at the
16 or 24 x 2.5 cases for increasing density and keeping down costs on
rack space.

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