<david@xxxxxxx> writes: > with a standard 7200 rpm drive ~150 transactions/sec sounds about right > > to really speed things up you want to get a disk controller with a battery > backed cache so that the writes don't need to hit the disk to be safe. Note that this is only if you're counting transactions/sec in a single session. You can get much more if you have many sessions since they can all commit together in a single disk i/o. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com