Matthew wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
4 x 147GB 15000 rpm SCSI in RAID 10 with 320-1 RAID CARD + 64MB
cache BBU
2x Intel Xeon E5405 / 4x 2.00GHz / 1333MHz FSB / 12MB cache
6GB RAM
Cost around 2320 GBP -- it would be great to get it under 2000
Needs to be in the UK.
I would be grateful for any comments. I'm particularly out of date about
the best processors to go for. DNUK also have Opteron as an option.
That sounds pretty good. It should run postgres fairly well, especially
if you have quite a few parallel queries coming in. You won't need a
bigger BBU cache if it's read-heavy. You'll have eight CPU cores, which
is good. And RAID 10 is good.
In my experience, battery backed cache is always worth the money. Even
if you're mostly select, you will have some updates. And it'll also pick
up other write activity onthe system...
//Magnus
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