Matthew Wakeling wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Stef Telford wrote: >> Good UPS, a warm PITR standby, offsite backups and regular checks is >> "good enough" for me, and really, that's what it all comes down to. >> Mitigating risk and factors into an 'acceptable' amount for each person. >> However, if you see over a 2x improvement from turning write-cache 'on' >> and have everything else in place, well, that seems like a 'no-brainer' >> to me, at least ;) > > In that case, buying a battery-backed-up cache in the RAID controller > would be even more of a no-brainer. > > Matthew > Hey Matthew, See about 3 messages ago.. We already have them (I did say UPS or BBU, it should have been a logical 'and' instead of logical 'or' .. my bad ;). Your right though, that was a no-brainer as well. I am wondering how the card (3ware 9550sx) will work with SSD's, md or lvm, blocksize, ext3 or ext4 .. but.. this is the point of benchmarking ;) Regards Stef -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance