On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Those intel SSDs sound compelling. I've been waiting for SSDs to get >>> competitive price and performance wise for a while, and when the >>> intels came out and I read the first benchmarks I immediately began >>> scheming. Sadly, that was right after we're ordered our new 16 drive >>> servers, and I didn't have time to try something new and hope it would >>> work. Now that the servers are up and running, we'll probably look at >>> adding the SSDs next summer before our high load period begins. >> >> The idea of SSDs is interesting. However I think I will wait for all the >> other early adopters to figure out the problems before I start >> suggesting them to clients. >> >> Hard drives work, their cheap and fast. I can get 25 spindles, 15k in a >> 3U with controller and battery backed cache for <$10k. > > This may be a little off-topic, but I'd be interested in hearing more > details about how you (or others) would do this... manufacturer, > model, configuration? How many hard drives do you need to get 25 > spindles? And where can you get that many 15K hard drives for under > $10K? My lack of experience in this area is showing here, but, > seriously, any suggestions appreciated. I don't know about fitting in a 3U, but you can get a 24 15k 73G SAS drive machine with 8 gig ram and a single quad core CPU from aberdeeninc.com for $10,055.00. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
