Re: Hardware question for a DB server - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Hardware question for a DB server
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In response to Re: Hardware question for a DB server  (Pascal Cohen <pcohen@wimba.com>)
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Pascal Cohen <pcohen@wimba.com> wrote:
>  I agree with what you are saying. We are using Java with a pool of
>  connections to access the DB. Today our database is really small
>  compared to the RAM but it may evolve and even will probably grow (hope
>  so which would be a good situation).
>


Keep in mind that differential cost between a mediocre and a good RAID
controller is often only a few hundred dollars.  If that means you can
scale to 10 or 100 times as many users, it's an investment worth
making up front rather than later on.

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