Re: hardware donation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: hardware donation
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Msg-id 51E87319.5060006@2ndQuadrant.com
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In response to hardware donation  (Benedikt Grundmann <bgrundmann@janestreet.com>)
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On 7/10/13 12:53 PM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote:
> The server will probably be most interesting for the disks in it.  That
> is where we spend the largest amount of time optimizing (for sequential
> scan speed in particular):
> 22x600GB disks in a Raid6+0 (Raid0 of 2x 10disk raid 6 arrays) + 2 spare
> disks. Overall size 8.7 TB in that configuration.

What is the RAID controller used in the server?  That doesn't impact the 
donation, I'm just trying to fit this one into my goals for finding 
useful community performance testing equipment.

There are a good number of systems floating around the community with HP 
controllers--I have even one myself now--but we could use more LSI Logic 
and Adaptec based systems.

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Greg Smith   2ndQuadrant US    greg@2ndQuadrant.com   Baltimore, MD
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