Jeremy Haile wrote:
We are a small company looking to put together the most cost effective solution for our production database environment. Currently in production Postgres 8.1 is running on this machine: Dell 2850 2 x 3.0 Ghz Xeon 800Mhz FSB 2MB Cache 4 GB DDR2 400 Mhz 2 x 73 GB 10K SCSI RAID 1 (for xlog and OS) 4 x 146 GB 10K SCSI RAID 10 (for postgres data) Perc4ei controller The above is a standard Dell box with nothing added or modified beyond the options available directly through Dell.
You should probably review the archives for PostgreSQL user experience with Dell's before you purchase one.
I sent our scenario to our sales team at Dell and they came back with all manner of SAN, DAS, and configuration costing as much as $50k.
HAHAHAHAHA.... Don't do that. Dell is making the assumption you won't do your homework. Make sure you cross quote with IBM, Compaq and Penguin Computing... Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. 1.503.667.4564 PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting Co-Authors: PLphp, PLperl - http://www.commandprompt.com/
