On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Andy <angelflow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > According to the specs for database storage: > "Random 4KB arites: Up to 600 IOPS" > Is that for real? 600 IOPS is *atrociously terrible* for an SSD. Not much > faster than mechanical disks. > Has anyone done any performance benchmark of 320 used as a DB storage? Is it > really that slow? I have one experience with 320 SSD that replaced a 4 drive RAID 10 10k raid. The site users and administrator in question gave summarized the before/after experience thusly: "PFM" (Pure Magic). Workload-wise it was a largish database (200gb+), 50% read, 50% write, mixed olap/oltp. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance