Hi, I am in the process of setting up a postgresql server with 12 SAS disks. I am considering two options: 1) set up a 12 disks raid 10 array to get maximum raw performance from the system and put everything on it (it the whole pg cluster, including WAL, and every tablespcace) 2) set up 3 raid 10 arrays of 4 disks, and dispatch my data on these disks via tablespaces : data1 = pg cluster + references data (dimensions) tablespace data2 = fact data tablespace data3 = indices tablespace Typical workload is either massive insert/update via ETL or complex queries on big (10 millions tuples) tables with several joins (including Mondrian ROLAP). Does anyone have an opinion of what could give best results ? Thanks, Franck ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate