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From Benjamin Scherrey
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In response to Latest advice on SSD?  (Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com>)
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You don't mention the size of your database. Does it fit in memory? If so your disks aren't going to matter a whole lot outside of potentially being i/o bound on the writes. Otherwise getting your data into SSDs absolutely can have a few multiples of performance impact. The NVME M.2 drives can really pump out the data. Maybe push your WAL onto those (as few motherboards have more than two connectors) and use regular SSDs for your data if you have high write rates.

Meanwhile, if you're looking for strong cloud hosting for Postgres but the speed of physical hardware, feel free to contact me as my company does this for some companies who found i/o limits on regular cloud providers to be way too slow for their needs. 

good luck (and pardon the crass commercial comments!),

  -- Ben Scherrey

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com> wrote:
One of our four "big iron" (spinning disks) servers went belly up today. (Thanks, Postgres and pgbackrest! Easy recovery.) We're planning to move to a cloud service at the end of the year, so bad timing on this. We didn't want to buy any more hardware, but now it looks like we have to.

I followed the discussions about SSD drives when they were first becoming mainstream; at that time, the Intel devices were king. Can anyone recommend what's a good SSD configuration these days? I don't think we want to buy a new server with spinning disks.

We're replacing:
  8 core (Intel)
  48GB memory
  12-drive 7200 RPM 500GB
     RAID1 (2 disks, OS and WAL log)
     RAID10 (8 disks, postgres data dir)
     2 spares
  Ubuntu 16.04
  Postgres 9.6

The current system peaks at about 7000 TPS from pgbench.

Our system is a mix of non-transactional searching (customers) and transactional data loading (us).

Thanks!
Craig

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Craig A. James
Chief Technology Officer
eMolecules, Inc.
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