On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:38:45 -0600, Thomas F.O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

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> Would a more ideal setup be a six-drive server with a RAID 1+0 on four
> drives with 2 drives dedicated to WAL that mirrored one another? Is
> that overkill? Anyone have recommendations for an appropriate setup for
> a 5-bay server?

A six drive setup would be great.  You definitly want some protection
for the WAL data.  I've seen up to a 20% increase on write-heavy
servers after moving pg_xlog to it's own disk.

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -tfo
> 
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> Thomas F. O'Connell
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