On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Scott Carey wrote: >> >> Off hand, I would suggest: >> >> 8x http://www.kingston.com/ssd/vplus100.asp (180MB/sec sustained write) >> stripped (RAID 0, you did say that you don't care about safety). That >> should be 1.44GB/sec write, minus overhead. > > Can get cheaper disks that go ~135MB/sec write and a couple more of them. > Another option, two of these (650MB+ /sec sustained) in raid 0: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3997/ocz-revodrive-x2-review/3 No external enclosure required, no raid card required (the card is basically 4 ssd's raided together in one package). Just 2 PCIe slots. The cost seems to be not too bad, at least for "how much does it cost to go 600MB/sec". $1200 will get two of them, for a total of 480GB and 1300MB/sec. Note, these are not data-safe on power failure. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
