Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec
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Msg-id 878CF1DF-7173-4620-B56A-0CC8D25B3671@khera.org
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In response to Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec  (PFC <lists@peufeu.com>)
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On Mar 20, 2006, at 6:27 PM, PFC wrote:

>     Expensive SCSI hardware RAID cards with expensive 10Krpm harddisks
> should not get humiliated by such a simple (and cheap) setup. (I'm
> referring to the 12-drive RAID10 mentioned before, not the other
> one which was a simple 2-disk mirror). Toms hardware benchmarked
> some hardware RAIDs and got humongous transfer rates... hm ?
>

I'll put up my "slow" 12 disk SCSI array up against your IDE array on
a large parallel load any day.


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