On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Brent Wood <Brent.Wood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does the RAID 1 array give any performance benefits over a single drive? I'd guess > that writes may be slower, reads may be faster (if balanced) but data security is improved. Unfortunately I didn't test a single drive as that's not a configuration we would run our systems in. I expect that it would reduce read performance and thus pgbench results some, but I can't tell you how much in this case. -Dave -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general