Re: dell versus hp - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: dell versus hp
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Msg-id 64DB0A4F-D737-4458-B3AA-D53CCBEE92BE@khera.org
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In response to dell versus hp  (Tore Halset <halset@pvv.ntnu.no>)
List pgsql-performance
On Nov 6, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Tore Halset wrote:

> Here are our current alternatives:

Two things I recommend.  If the drives are made by western digital,
run away.

If the PERC5/i is an Adaptec card, run away.

Max out your cache RAM on the RAID card.  256 is the minimum when you
have such big data sets that need the big disks you're looking at.



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