Re: best arrangement of 3 disks for (insert) performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Rod Taylor
Subject Re: best arrangement of 3 disks for (insert) performance
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Msg-id 1063404674.66070.1.camel@jester
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In response to Re: best arrangement of 3 disks for (insert) performance  (Richard Jones <rj@last.fm>)
List pgsql-performance
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:55, Richard Jones wrote:
> The machine is coming from dell, and i have the option of a
> PERC 3/SC RAID Controller (32MB)
> or software raid.
>
> does anyone have any experience of this controller?
> its an additional £345 for this controller, i'd be interested to know what
> people think - my other option is to buy the raid controller separately,
> which appeals to me but i wouldnt know what to look for in a raid controller.

Hardware raid with the write cache, and sell a CPU if necessary to buy
it (don't sell the ram though!).

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