On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Shaun Thomas <sthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/02/2014 04:55 PM, Bret Stern wrote: > >> Care to share the SSD hardware you're using? > > > We use these: > > http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodrive2/ > > The older versions of these cards can read faster than a RAID-10 of 80x15k > RPM SAS drives, based on our tests from a couple yeas ago. Writes aren't > *quite* as fast, but still much better than even a large RAID array. > > They ain't cheap, though. You can expect to pay around $15k USD per TB, I > believe. There are other similar products from other vendors which may have > different cost/performance ratios, but I can only vouch for stuff I've > personally tested. > > Our adventure with these cards was a presentation at Postgres Open in 2011. > Slides are here: > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/c/c5/Nvram_fun_profit.pdf > Where I work we use the MLC based FusionIO cards and they are quite fast. It's actually hard to push them to their max with only 24 or 32 cores in a fast machine. My favorite thing about them is their fantastic support. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
