Re: Hardware suggestions - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Hardware suggestions
Date
Msg-id 467AFBBB.3040204@g2switchworks.com
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In response to Re: Hardware suggestions  (Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>)
Responses Re: Hardware suggestions
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Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Scott Marlowe writes:
>
>> and a bit more resiliant to drive failure, RAID-5 can give you a lot
>> of storage and very good read performance, so it works well for
>> reporting /
>
> New controllers now also have Raid 6, which from the few reports I
> have seen seems to have a good compromise of performance and space.
>

Very true.  And if they've gone to the trouble of implementing RAID-6,
they're usually at least halfway decent controllers.

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