Re: [PERFORM] Performance advice for a new low(er)-power server

2011-06-17 Thread Haestan
On Jun 16, 2011, at 20:43, Greg Smith wrote: > The layout you proposed (OS+WAL , data) might be effective, but if your write > volume is low it may not be much of an improvement at all over a simple RAID1 > of two drives. The odds that you are going to correctly lay out individual > sections o

Re: [PERFORM] Performance advice for a new low(er)-power server

2011-06-17 Thread Haestan
On Jun 16, 2011, at 20:29, Jesper Krogh wrote: > On 2011-06-16 17:09, Haestan wrote: >> I am evaluating hardware for a new PostgreSQL server. For reasons >> concerning power consumption and available space it should not have >> more than 4 disks (in a 1U case), if possibl

[PERFORM] Performance advice for a new low(er)-power server

2011-06-16 Thread Haestan
Hi, I am evaluating hardware for a new PostgreSQL server. For reasons concerning power consumption and available space it should not have more than 4 disks (in a 1U case), if possible. Now, I am not sure what disks to use and how to layout them to get the best performance. The cheaper option woul