Re: Dell Hardware Recommendations - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Dell Hardware Recommendations
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Msg-id E519A947-4DEC-448D-BA86-E3B0471C3968@khera.org
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In response to Dell Hardware Recommendations  (Joe Uhl <joeuhl@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Dell Hardware Recommendations
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On Aug 9, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Joe Uhl wrote:

> PowerEdge 1950 paired with a PowerVault MD1000
> 2 x Quad Core Xeon E5310
> 16 GB 667MHz RAM (4 x 4GB leaving room to expand if we need to)
> PERC 5/E Raid Adapter
> 2 x 146 GB SAS in Raid 1 for OS + logs.
> A bunch of disks in the MD1000 configured in Raid 10 for Postgres
> data.

I'd avoid Dell disk systems if at all possible.  I know, I've been
through the pain. You really want someone else providing your RAID
card and disk array, especially if the 5/E card is based on the
Adaptec devices.


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