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From Andrew Hood
Subject Re: Hardware purchase question
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Msg-id 41BEB383.6050300@ambergreen.co.uk
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In response to Re: Hardware purchase question  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> An Opteron, properly tuned with PostgreSQL will always beat a Xeon
> in terms of raw cpu.
>
> RAID 10 will typically always outperform RAID 5 with the same HD config.
>
> Fibre channel in general will always beat a normal (especially an LSI)
> raid.
>
> Dell's suck for PostgreSQL.

Does anyone have any OS recommendations/experiences for PostgreSQL on
Opteron?

Thanks,
Andrew

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