I forgot to add that the 24 10K disks are 2.5 inch and the 12 15K disks are 3.5 inch On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Anj Adu <fotographs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am faced with a hardware choice for a postgres data warehouse > (extremely high volume inserts..over 200 million records a day) with a > total storage of either > > 12 x 600G disks (15K) (the new Dell Poweredge C server) > > or > > 24 x 600G (10K disks) > > ALL direct attached storage. > > I am leaning toward the 24 disks as I expect the higher number of > disks to provide overall better performance under high loads > > Does anyone have any experience with a mixed 10K / 15K DAS storage > that you can share. > > Thank you > > Sriram > -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin