On Nov 24, 2007 5:09 AM, Clodoaldo <clodoaldo.pinto.neto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I will build a cheap server and I'm in doubt about what would the the > best for performance: > > 1 - everything in one lonely fast 10,000 rpm Raptor HD; > > 2 - two cheap 7,200 rpm 16MB cache HDs like this: > > disk 1 - system and pg_xlog > disk 2 - pg_data without pg_xlog > or a better arrange suggested by you; > > 3 - The two cheap HDs above in Raid 0. >From a DBA perspective, none of those seem like a good choice, as there's no redundancy. I'd make the two 7200 RPM drives a RAID-1 and have some redundancy so a single disk failure wouldn't lose all my data. then I'd start buying more drives and a good RAID controller if I needed more performance. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly