On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:44:25PM -0800, Luke Lonergan wrote: > Jim, > > > PostgreSQL tuned to the max and still too slow? Database too big to > > fit into memory? Here's the solution! http://www.superssd.com/ > > products/tera-ramsan/ > > With a single 3 Gbyte/second infiniband connection to the device? > > You'd be better off with 4 x $10K servers that do 800MB/s from disk each and > a Bizgres MPP - then you'd do 3.2GB/s (faster than the SSD) at a price 1/10 > of the SSD, and you'd have 24TB of RAID5 disk under you. > > Plus - need more speed? Add 12 more servers, and you'd run at 12.8GB/s and > have 96TB of disk to work with, and you'd *still* spend less on HW and SW > than the SSD. Now what happens as soon as you start doing random I/O? :) -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
