Re: SSDs with Postgresql? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: SSDs with Postgresql?
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Msg-id 4DA6918D.5030804@hogranch.com
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In response to SSDs with Postgresql?  (Benjamin Smith <lists@benjamindsmith.com>)
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On 04/13/11 9:19 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote:
>
> The speed benefits of SSDs as benchmarked would seem incredible. Can
> anybody comment on SSD benefits and problems in real life use?
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>
> I maintain some 100 databases on 3 servers, with 32 GB of RAM each and
> an extremely rich, complex schema. (300+ normalized tables)
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> I was wondering if anybody here could comment on the benefits of SSD
> in similar, high-demand rich schema situations?
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>

consumer grade MLC SSD's will crash and burn in short order under a
heavy transactional workload characterized by sustained small block
random writes.

The enterprise grade SLC SSDs' will perform very nicely, but they are
very very expensive, and found in high end enterprise database servers
like Oracle's Exadata machines.



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