On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:41 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/14/12 12:16 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: >> >> I was just looking at some modest-sized 15k SAS drives that priced out in >> the $400-550 range. 25 of them would add a minimum of $10,000 to the price >> tag. Still under 6-figures, though. > > > those disks aren't any cheaper when they are behind a EMC or NetApp > SAN/NAS... > > in fact, most any of the 'big name' enterprise storage vendors would charge > about triple that for each disk. Note that if you don't need a lot of storage you can often use 300G 15k SAS drives which are around $300 each. 20 of those in a RAID-10 gives you ~3TB of storage which is plenty for most transactional applications. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general