Chris Barnes wrote:
> Does anyone use solid state drives for postgres?
>
> Has there been any benchmark that states whether mechanical disk
> drives out perform solid state drives?
>
> Is there any benefit, they are quite expensive.
>
> Chris Barnes
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I use a single SSD on one of our servers and it appears to be much more
responsive than a single 15K SAS drive - Thats as scientific as my
testing gets! The database I use is mostly reads.
Careful which SSD you choose because there is a wide variation in
performance.
Howard Cole
www.selestial.com
