What type of usage does it need to scale for? How many concurrent connections? What size database? Data warehousing or OLTP-type workloads? Ratio of reads/writes? Do you care about losing data? One question that's likely going to be important depending on your answers above is whether or not you're getting a battery-backed write cache for that ServeRAID-8K. -- Mark Lewis On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 19:58 +0100, Pascal Cohen wrote: > Hello, we plan to buy a dedicated server to host our database. > Here is the proposal I was given (with a second identical server fro > backup using log shipping): > ========================= > IBM X3650 (This is a 2U server, can hold 8 Drives) > 2 x QC Xeon E5450 (3.0GHz 12MB L2 1333MHz 80W) > 8 x 2GB RAM (16GB total) > 2.5" SAS Hotswap > ServeRAID-8K SAS Controller > 8 x 73GB 15K 2.5" SAS Drive > CD/DVD Drive > Remote Supervisor Adapter II Slimline > Redundant Power > 4 Year, 24x7 2hour support/warranty > > ========================= > > I would like specialists advices. > > If you need additional details, please let me know. > > Thanks in advance for your help > > Thank you > > Pascal > -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
